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That\u2019s what you get for sleeping in.  President Trump\u2019s on right now, declaring his \u201cbin-Laden moment\u201d with the reported death of al-Baghdadi.  If it\u2019s true, I\u2019m glad he\u2019s dead.  I\u2019m sorry the President can\u2019t see the gravity of the moment, and needs to talk about what he wrote in a book in 1999.   And I am confused \u2013 did we leave Syria, are we in Syria, or did we just say it was OK for the Turks to invade Syria?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Warning <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the months leading up to the release of the Mueller Report, we were warned.\u00a0\u00a0We were told that the Trump Administration would do everything to distract from what Robert Mueller and his team found. \u00a0They told us to expect anything:\u00a0\u00a0from personal attacks on the unassailable honor and decency of Mueller himself, to the honesty of the team his assembled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We heard about \u201cthe seventeen angry Democrats\u201d and the \u201clying\u201d witnesses.\u00a0\u00a0And we were ready for all of that.\u00a0\u00a0But what we weren\u2019t ready for was Attorney General William Barr.\u00a0\u00a0The man was presented to us as an \u201cinstitutionalist\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0He would defend the fundamental impartiality of the Justice Department, and was a \u201cfriend\u201d of Robert Mueller.\u00a0\u00a0The two were compared to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and Attorney General William Saxbe. They were friends who came to the Senate Judiciary Committee together to guarantee the impartiality of the Watergate investigation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Zealot<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

What we didn\u2019t know then was that Bill Barr, at the end of a distinguished career, was a zealot.\u00a0\u00a0He believed so strongly in an aberrant Constitutional theory of the Presidency, that he was willing to throw his \u201cfriend\u201d Mueller and his work \u201cunder the bus\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0He lied about its conclusions, and hid the actual findings for almost a month.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we didn\u2019t know was that Bill Barr would put the full resources of the Justice Department at the disposal of the White House.  Attorneys paid for by US taxpayers are going into court defending the President\u2019s \u201cright\u201d to hide his taxes and ignore subpoenas.  They not only are defending the absolute authority of the President, but they are claiming his absolute immunity from trial, indictment, or even investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what we really didn\u2019t expect, is the Attorney General Barr would personally lead an investigation based on Russian propaganda and alt-right conspiracy theories.  We thought this former AG, an \u201cestablishment Republican\u201d couldn\u2019t be sucked into that black hole.  But he has travelled the globe trying to find any evidence he can to \u201cprove\u201d it.   By lending credence to it, he gets the opportunity to threaten the President\u2019s old enemies:  Comey and McCabe, Strzok and Page, Brennan and Clapper.   Not only does that make Mr. Trump \u201chappy,\u201d but it also distracts from the deep trouble he\u2019s in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distract and Divert<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But here we are. As the impeachment investigation into the President taking US military aid to extort Ukrainian help in the 2020 election goes on, we can now expect even more extreme actions.  This weekend, it is the \u201cfree Flynn\u201d outcry, claiming that convicted foreign agent and liar Michael Flynn was \u201cset up\u201d by the FBI.  It only adds to their fury that one of the agents questioning Flynn was Peter Strzok, and that the questioning was under the direction of Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports from the hearings in the House note that Republicans are actively participating.  They are asking questions and taking notes. More specifically they are digging into witnesses, trying to find out whether they \u201csupport\u201d the President, and do they know who the \u201cwhistleblowers\u201d are.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next great Republican \u201crevelation\u201d will be the names of the whistleblowers, and why they are \u201ctainted\u201d by Democrats.\u00a0\u00a0They will be truly excoriated, their lives torn apart, and their careers in the government over.\u00a0\u00a0They will be sacrificed, even though the truth of the President\u2019s own words and actions are all the evidence that\u2019s needed to impeach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come Tomorow<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Much of this is merely diversion and distraction.  But his announcement of the Delta Force operation ending in the death of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi is real.  It\u2019s good that he\u2019s dead, but the President has already given out more specific information and detail than US Forces would have liked.  This gives Mr. Trump his \u201cbin-Laden moment,\u201d and he\u2019s certainly allowed to enjoy it.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But by the end of the day, the President will be back to attacking Democrats.  By tomorrow morning, the center of his universe will pivot back to a House \u201cSCIF\u201d where depositions are being taken.  This won\u2019t go away.   And expect the President to \u201ckick, scream and whimper\u201d all the way to impeachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s what you get for sleeping in.  President Trump\u2019s on right now, declaring his \u201cbin-Laden moment\u201d with the reported death of al-Baghdadi.  If it\u2019s true, I\u2019m glad he\u2019s dead.  I\u2019m sorry the President can\u2019t see the gravity of the moment, and needs to talk about what he wrote in a book in 1999.   And I am confused \u2013 did … Continue reading “We Were Warned”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nWe Were Warned : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We knew that the President would go kicking and screaming to impeachment. 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