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\u201cHe looked at me like I was stupid, I\u2019m not stupid\u201d \u2013 from Hamilton the Musical <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a lot of misinformation and outright lies in politics today.  Whether we call it \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d or \u201cfake news,\u201d it often makes it feel like there is no way to discover the truth.  But some tales are so fabulous, so ridiculous, that they aren\u2019t really attempts at misinformation.  They are just insults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CrowdStrike<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Lets start with the fundamental conspiracy of the \u201cGiuliani\u201d set.  It states that Hillary Clinton, through the Democratic National Committee, organized Ukrainian officials to attack the US elections and get her elected President.  This is based on the tenuous connection of a co-founder of the computer protection company CrowdStrike, Dimitri Alperovitch. He was born in Russia (not Ukraine).  Supposedly he was connected to a Ukrainian oligarch, Viktor Pinchuk.  That connection:  Aperovitch, along with his role at CrowdStrike, is also a senior fellow on the Atlantic Council, a global think tank.  Pinchuk is a major donor to the Atlantic Council. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the entire link.  According to Giuliani, Pinchuk used his financial influence (that he doesn\u2019t have) to get CrowdStrike and the DNC to attack the US elections, hack the DNC, and leak the DNC emails in the 2016 election.  He then says that CrowdStrike \u201cspoofed\u201d evidence that Russia hacked the American election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only is Giuliani pushing this idea, but so is Russian Intelligence.  It not only creates confusion that benefits the Trump Administration, but it lets Russia off the hook for interfering in the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian View<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In addition, Giuliani points to the Clinton \u201csupport\u201d of the Ukrainian government during the election as evidence of this conspiracy.  Of course the facts for Ukraine are different. Hillary Clinton took a much stronger stand against Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and theft of the Crimean Province. Donald Trump seemed to be willing to allow Russia to maintain possession of that strategic location.  Ukrainian leaders would certainly support the candidate that opposed Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add that to Giuliani\u2019s characterization of the US Embassy in Kyiv as the \u201cClinton Headquarters – Kyiv\u201d because of embassy cooperation with a US citizen and former DNC attorney with the hunger-inducing name of Alexandra Chalupa.  Chalupa helped get evidence of Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort\u2019s corrupt activity to the US media.  When the press asked the Embassy about that evidence, they were directed to Chalupa. That\u2019s it.  But Giuliani uses that cooperation as proof that the Embassy was biased, and at the heart of the Ukraine conspiracy against Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defying Logic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The social media campaign waged in the 2016 campaign clearly benefited Donald Trump\u2019s candidacy.  The concept that the DNC arranged to hack itself, and then drip out it\u2019s own emails to the demise of the Clinton campaign, is ludicrous.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m a Democrat.  We Democrats are capable of doing foolish things.  I was a Democrat when Senator Gary Hart, leading the race for the Presidential nomination, dared the press to find out about his illicit affair.  They did.  I was also a Democrat when Bill Clinton had sex with an intern in the halls of the White House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while I can point to Democrats who made incredibly poor personal choices, I don\u2019t think the Democratic National Committee would wage war against itself in the middle of the 2016 campaign. I can believe that the DNC was biased against the Bernie Sanders candidacy in 2016, but I don\u2019t think it hacked itself and leaked it\u2019s own emails to destroy the Clinton candidacy.  It not only defies logic:  but we aren\u2019t that stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insurance Policy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The second conspiracy theory is that the FBI conspired to destroy the Trump Campaign and insure a Clinton victory in 2016.  This hallucination is based on the private text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and Department of Justice Attorney Lisa Page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strzok was the agent in charge of the FBI\u2019s investigation into contacts between Russian Intelligence and the Trump Campaign, called \u201cCrossfire Hurricane\u201d. The FBI was warned by the Australian Ambassador to the UK that a Trump operative, George Papadopoulos, had prior knowledge of the DNC hacking and the Clinton emails.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papadopoulos got this information from Paul Mifsud, a known Russian operative.  In addition the FBI was getting information about Campaign Manager Paul Manafort\u2019s contacts with Konstantin Kilimnik, also linked with Russian intelligence.  And finally a third Trump advisor, Carter Page, had already been connected to a Russian \u201cspy ring\u201d in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crossfire Hurricane<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCrossfire Hurricane,\u201d was vetted to the highest levels of the FBI, including Director Comey and Assistant Director McCabe.  The Clinton email investigation was publicly announced, both when Comey determined that there was no crime committed, and then when he reopened the investigation two weeks before the election.  But the FBI made no mention of \u201cCrossfire Hurricane\u201d either during the election or afterwards.  It didn\u2019t come out until Congressional hearings in March of 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strzok did have an \u201cinsurance policy,\u201d the existence of \u201cCrossfire Hurricane\u201d.  A single leak to the New York Times, <\/em>the Wall Street Journal, <\/em>or CNN <\/em>would have had a dramatic impact on the 2016 election, a choice determined by less than 78,000 votes out of almost 130 million.  He didn\u2019t use it.  Comey could have stood in front of the press, as he did with the Clinton investigation in July of 2016, and announced the investigation.  He didn\u2019t either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Strzok, Comey and McCabe conspired to stop the Trump candidacy, they had everything they needed to do it.  But they didn\u2019t.  So when they accused of having \u201cthe insurance policy\u201d there is that fatal flaw.  They didn\u2019t use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angry Democrats<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And then there were the thirteen, or seventeen, or eighteen \u201cAngry Democrats,\u201d the lawyers on the Mueller investigation team.  Trump supporters claim that those lawyers were biased against the President, and therefore the Mueller Report was unfair towards him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But reality again pushes back against this \u201ctheory\u201d.  First, Mueller himself was apolitical, even though he was a registered Republican.  And second, you have the top prosecutors in the nation, all \u201cAngry Democrats,\u201d investigating for almost two years.  They didn\u2019t \u201cclose the deal\u201d of Trump\/Russian conspiracy, despite all of the evidence showing that it occurred.  They had to settle for the Trump argument that the campaign wasn\u2019t organized enough, good enough if you will, to conspire with anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If they were \u201cAngry Democrats,\u201d they set aside their political biases to do a solid investigation.  If they erred, the did so in favor of the President, Donald Trump.  At several critical decision points, the investigation didn\u2019t act like \u201cAngry Democrats,\u201d but like cautious Federal lawyers investigating the President of the United States.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not Stupid<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So Democrats attacked social media and hacked their own computers to rig the 2016 election for their candidate. The FBI rigged a counter-intelligence investigation to prevent Donald Trump from winning the election. And when he did win, despite these efforts, thirteen or seventeen or eighteen of our finest Democratic Prosecutors spent two years trying to impeach Donald Trump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And none of it worked.  So if you follow all of the conspiracy theories against the Presidency of Donald J Trump, you must reach the following conclusion:  Democrats are really, really stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re not.  And if you fall for this nonsense and buy into these fabrications, you should ask another question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How stupid are you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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