Why the collective liberal media yawn on the multi-headed Democratic scandals surfacing everywhere except on their pages and airwaves?
It's not that the stories are too far-fetched and thin to interest self-respecting journalists, because they are real, damning and supported by sufficiently credible evidence to warrant serious attention and scrutiny.
There are the notorious Trump dossier, the Clinton-infected uranium bribery scandal and the prematurely drafted FBI memo to exonerate the most recently defeated United States presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, who, by the way, is still acting like a heat-seeking missile in search of just one plausible excuse for her loss. Let's look at these scandals in turn.
The Obama administration was clearly spying on the Trump campaign during the presidential campaign, but was it based on good-faith evidence something untoward was occurring? Separate investigations are underway in both the Senate and the House to determine whether the administration relied on the so-called "Trump dossier" to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant authorizing its "wiretapping" of Trump officials.
What's the problem with that, you ask? Well, you can't just throw things against the FISA wall to justify suspending Americans' privacy. The dossier is full of unsubstantiated information alleging elaborate connections between Trump and Russia -- mouthwatering to Trump hunters but without calories.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence issued a subpoena to Fusion GPS, the opposition research company behind the dossier, which was authored by former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele. Fusion GPS' attorneys asserted "constitutional privileges" on behalf of the company's executives in refusing to deliver the subpoenaed documents. Swell.
The Daily Caller reports that Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley raised several "alarming" questions in an Oct. 4 letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray. Did the FBI present dubious information from the dossier to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain the warrant? If so, this would be a "staggering" revelation, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova -- "a type of manipulation of intelligence data and false intelligence data to mislead a court" that could require "the empanelment of a federal grand jury."
Grassley also asked whether Steele used the same information from the dossier in his report to British intelligence. Grassley is rightly concerned that the British report, though allegedly based on the same bogus information as the dossier, might have been fraudulently presented as independent corroboration of the dossier. So far, the FBI hasn't responded to three letters from Grassley seeking explanations for these anomalies.
Next, while the liberal media and the Democratic establishment shamelessly collude to find some scintilla of collusion between Trump and Russia to tamper with the presidential election, they've studiously avoided reporting on potentially real evidence of collusion between American officials and Russia. We've long heard allegations that the Clintons colluded with the Russians to enrich themselves at the expense of America's national security. But new evidence has emerged that may give this story some real teeth. The Hill's John Solomon and Alison Spann and Circa News reporter Sara Carter revealed that the FBI has acquired numerous documents, secret recordings, emails, financial records and eyewitness accounts allegedly proving that Russian nuclear officials caused millions of dollars to be paid to the Clinton Foundation and hundreds of thousands to be paid to Bill Clinton directly when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. The State Department then approved the sale of 20 percent of America's uranium supply to Russia.
The Hill reports that the Obama administration was aware of these sordid transactions before it approved the deal to sell the uranium to the Russians in 2010: "The FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin's atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews." All kinds of other evidence was obtained showing Russian officials had "routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation" while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. But instead of bringing charges, the Obama Justice Department continued investigating -- while the administration gave away our nuclear farm.
Even in the unlikely event that there is some less-than-incriminating explanation for all this, who can deny this is real collusion that resulted in dire consequences for our national security? Yet nary a peep elsewhere out of the liberal media. It seems they're only interested in false allegations of Russian collusion that involves Republicans -- not in real collusion that involves the Democratic royal family, the Clintons.
Finally, for now, based on FBI documents, we know that former FBI Director James Comey began penning draft statements exonerating then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of criminal wrongdoing in the use of her personal email servers to host and transmit classified information before Comey had interviewed almost a dozen major witnesses, including Clinton herself. This is hardly a case of no harm, no foul, because in his announcement declining to bring charges, Comey declared that Clinton was guilty of egregious misconduct. He only declined to prosecute because he said the relevant criminal statute requires proof of criminal intent, which it manifestly does not and which exists anyway. Adding insult to injury, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is publicly defending Comey's disgraceful act of prejudgment in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Liberals are frustrated that Donald Trump is in charge of their coveted executive branch and that their efforts to discredit, incriminate and impeach him for alleged Russian collusion are in free fall. Now they're pursuing plan B: Trump is too crazy to occupy the office. Democrats know a good offense is the best defense and the best diversion against evidence of Russian collusion -- actual tangible proof of wrongdoing rather than partisan fabrication. Republicans need to pursue this reality as fervently as Democrats pursued their slanderous unreality.
