Because Hillary Was Supposed to Win

At Hillary Clinton's direction, the Democratic National Committee paid for the Fusion GPS dossier and then handed it (with John McCain's fingerprints on it) to the FBI's Counterintelligence Chief, who washed that information through the Intelligence Community to give it the appearance of intelligence information gathered by US agencies, to hand to a FISA judge to obtain a warrant to conduct surveillance on a political opponent.  These events can only be a surprise, however, to the willfully blind.  If you recall, during the Democratic Primary debates Candidate Hillary Clinton was asked whom she was most proud to consider an enemy.  Was it Kim Jong-un?  Bashir Assad?  Putin?  Saddam Hussein?  Qaddafi?  No siree.  Her answer, you may recall, was a group of law-abiding American citizens.  The NRA. 

Candidate Clinton's answer was in keeping with the policies of her benefactor, Barack Hussein Obama, who had weaponized the IRS and the EPA and the Justice Department against domestic political challengers, bringing the full weight of government power to bear to extralegally persecute those of us who were the wrong race or gender, or held the wrong viewpoint about which of our Constitutional liberties we should have.  This autocratic tyranny stood poised to permanently occupy the positions of power in what would have become our former Republic.   And Hillary Clinton was a lock to win the White House.  

Except she didn't.  And we may thank God and the Deplorables for it.  The residue of the Left's fecal contamination of our Republic's institutions is very publicly being scrubbed from the walls, of late.  With the release of the "FBI memo", the disinfectant effect of sunlight seems to have caught the roaches before they could scurry away.  

But National Review's Victor David Hanson tells us what was supposed to happen.

Had Hillary won, as she was supposed to, Comey would probably have been mildly chastised for his herky-jerky press conferences, but ultimately praised for making sure the email scandal didn’t derail her. Comey’s later implosion, recall, occurred only after the improbable election of Donald Trump, as he desperately reversed course a fourth time and tried to ingratiate himself with Trump while hedging his bets by winking and nodding at the ongoing, unraveling fantasy of the Steele dossier.

And Barack Obama? We now know that he himself used an alias to communicate at least 20 times with Hillary on her private, non-secure gmail account. But Obama lied on national TV, saying he learned of Hillary’s illegal server only when the rest of the nation did, by reading the news. Would he have dared to lie so publicly if he’d assumed that Trump’s presidency was imminent? Would he ever have allowed his subordinates to use the dossier to obtain FISA warrants and pass around and unmask the resulting surveillance transcripts if he’d seen Trump as the likely winner and a potentially angered president with powers to reinvestigate all these illegal acts?

We sometimes forget that Barack Obama, not candidate Hillary Clinton, was president when the FBI conducted the lax investigation of the email scandal, when Loretta Lynch outsourced her prosecutorial prerogatives to James Comey, when the FBI trafficked with the Clinton-funded Fusion GPS dossier, when various DOJ and FBI lawyers requested FISA-approved surveillance largely on the basis of a fraudulent document, and when administration officials unmasked and leaked the names of American citizens.

Had Hillary Clinton polled ten points behind Donald Trump in early 2016, we’d have none of these scandals — not because those involved were moral actors (none were), but because Hillary would have been considered yesterday’s damaged goods and not worth any extra-legal exposure taken on her behalf.

Similarly, if the clear front-runner Hillary Clinton had won the election, we’d now have no scandals. Again, the reason is not that she and her careerist enablers did not engage in scandalous behavior, but that such foul play would have been recalibrated as rewardable fealty and absorbed into the folds of the progressive deep state.

The deranged panic of the Schiffs and the Pelosis is a sure sign that this is far worse than anyone in their complicit news media dared let on.  Hillary Clinton.  Bill Clinton.  Barack Obama.  Loretta Lynch.  James Comey.  James Clapper.  John Brennan.  Peter Strzok.  Andrew McCabe.  Samantha Power.  Susan Rice.  Huma Abedein.  Cheryl Mills.  And yes, Robert Mueller and John McCain.  

Perjury.  Obstruction of justice.  Conspiracy.  Falsifying government documents.  Mishandling of classified information.  Influence-peddling.  Malfeasance and abuse of government power.  And, quite possibly, treason.  

This makes Watergate look like a parking ticket.   

URR here.  

Comments

[Paul L. Quandt]

A good post, URR. Thanks.

Paul L. Quandt

[KenH]

In a sane 'verse, they all need to be hung on meathooks and set on fire....

Maybe settle for the utter obliteration of the entire RAT Party

[Quartermaster]

Nixon was a basically decent man who was a very bad liar. His sin was covering for those who supported him because he was loyal to those that were loyal to him. Had Ford not pardoned him, I have no doubt Nixon would have ended up in prison.

I have no doubt that Obama and Hillary would be glad to help any number of people fall on their sword to stay out of prison themselves. If those two scum bags ended up as cellmates of those that supported them, it would not offend me in the least.

[Krag]

Call me naive, but this story has been quite a shock with regards to learning how corrupt the FBI is. Having worked, briefly, alongside DEA and BLM, I had little respect for them. ATF should be burned to the ground. I had hoped FBI was still okay, that their counter intelligence mandate would have separated/insulated them a bit more from political influence...clearly I was quite wrong. Very depressing.

[Casey]

KenH, since when is calling for someone's execution (before a trial, yet) a "sane" act? Much less hanging them on meat hooks and setting them on fire.

QM, I rarely disagree with you, but on what planet is that true of Nixon? He was involved in planning those break ins and other criminal acts up to his ears. Nixon relished the idea of getting back at his critics; remember the enemies list? Remember how his "plumbers" discussed the assassination of at least one DC political writer?

The only thing that betrayed Nixon was his own nature. His sin was that he was responsible for the commission of multiple felonies, and the attempted cover-up of said felonies, including obstruction of justice.

I used to think the nearest president to Obama was Wilson, but these days he reminds me more of Nixon.