Dealing with Low Lifes
Jerome Corsi; conspiracy theorist, father of “Birthism” and “Swift Boating,” and author of two inaccurate best selling books about the unfitness of John Kerry and Barack Obama; is now cooperating with Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. Corsi, a friend of Trump advisor Roger Stone, may be the contact between Julian Assange of Wikileaks and Stone.
Roger Stone is a shadowy Republican operative with a picture of Nixon tattooed to his back (really.) As a young man in his twenties, Stone was drawn into the “Rat-F—kers,” the dirty tricksters of the Nixon campaign. They did whatever was necessary to disrupt Nixon’s opponents, most famously faking the “Canuck Letter,” a letter that led to Democratic Senator Ed Muskie’s withdrawal from the 1972 Presidential election. Stone then went on to become a “political consultant,” working with future Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort on international campaigns for autocrats throughout the eighties and nineties.
Stone lived in a shady world on the edge of the Republican Party. He was looked upon as a “Nixon Freak” who backed dictators for cash, but when the dirty work needed to be done, he was called in. One of the more recent examples was in the contested 2000 Presidential election in Florida. When the Bush campaign needed protestors to disrupt the recount in Palm Beach County, Stone delivered the “Brook Brothers Riot,” temporarily stopping the count and giving the Bush team more time to get to the courts where they eventually “won” the election.
Stone, Corsi, radio commentator Randy Credico and Sam Nunberg, a lawyer and Stone acolyte; all are an unlikely group to link the Trump Campaign to Russian Intelligence. They seem to be from the “isle of misfit toys,” odd, often incoherent, and easy to ignore. How could these almost laughable stereotypes connect the President of the United States to near treasonous actions?
Donald Trump lived in his own shady world, the world of high stakes real estate, urban construction and casinos. Throughout most of his career he depended on a lawyer to “fix” his problems. Payoffs, deals, promises made and broken, were all part of the “fixer’s” role. Trump had one of the best, Roy Cohn, made famous for being the legal counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950’s. After McCarthy was disgraced, Cohn moved to New York, did the “dirty work” of the Republican Party, and gaining a reputation as a “first class fixer.”
Cohn introduced Stone to Trump, and Stone became the political force behind Trump’s interest in running for President. Stone claims that he got Trump to run, then stepped away to take an “informal” role in the campaign. What he did best was best not part of the campaign structure.
It was Stone who couldn’t resist predicting the release of the DNC emails in August. And it was Stone who prophesized Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta’s “time in the barrel” before Podesta’s emails were released on October 6th, 2016, to counter the impact of the Access Hollywood tape. He knew that the emails were coming, and he knew when it was going to happen.
Here’s how the line is drawn. Stone was connected to the Trump Campaign. Corsi was connected to Assange and Wikileaks. Assange was connected to Russian Intelligence. If Corsi testifies that he was in communication with both Assange and Stone, he becomes “the dot” connecting Russian Intelligence to the Trump Campaign. If Mueller has evidence showing Stone’s direct connection to the top of the campaign, then Corsi may well be the key to proving conspiracy against the United States (or what the President would call collusion.)
In the Watergate crisis, FBI Assistant Director Mark Felt, the “Deep Throat” informant to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, warned Woodward not to think too highly of those in the White House.
“Forget the myths the media’s created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
If treason was committed, we visualize it as being done by brilliantly flawed individuals, clearly willing to give up their country for money or power. It’s hard enough to accept the possibility that any American would be treasonous, it’s even harder to believe that it was this group of oddball misfits that did it. And it’s even more incredible that they were successful, electing a President of the United States.
Special Prosecutor Mueller has a problem. Guys like Corsi, Credico, and Nunberg are not convincing witnesses; they are men who have spent a lot of time spreading falsehoods. There credibility is easily attacked. But the whole affair is filled with lowlifes, from Manafort to Gates, from Cohn to Stone, and there isn’t a person of “shining honor” among them. They are the misfits who won the election. That makes them the only ones who can testify to treason.
Note: title quote from Paul Butler, former US Attorney and Georgetown Law Professor
