Deroy Murdock:
Have you ever found yourself in the middle of an elaborate story when, suddenly, you have no idea why you are telling someone about, say, the time that you sliced up the soles of your feet while perched atop jagged coral in Cancun? “What’s the point of all this?” you ask yourself, half aloud.
Russia!-Russia!-Russia!-gate has become just like that.
For more than nine months, Democrats and their henchmen in the old-guard media have spun an elaborate tale about Donald J. Trump scheming with Vladimir Putin to steal the White House from Hillary Clinton, who supposedly was born to run America. That yarn has unraveled, as even high-profile Democrats including Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Maxine Waters of California concede, there is no evidence of this Ian Fleming–style grand conspiracy. And . . . now . . . we wonder why we ever started to hear about all of this.
The hunt for reds in October has morphed into a quest for obstructed justice in June. This has become a narrative about nothing.
Democrats desperately tried to turn the Senate Intelligence Committee’s June 13 hearing into a James Bond film full of lawyers. Under oath, Attorney General Jeff Sessions denounced the notion that he secretly met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak — perhaps to discuss which swing states the Kremlin would hack for Trump’s benefit, or maybe to stock up on invisible ink.
“I have never met with or had any conversations with any Russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election,” Sessions said, his voice rising in indignation. “Further, I have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the Trump campaign. I was your colleague in this body for 20 years, and the suggestion that I participated in any collusion or that I was aware of any collusion with the Russian government to hurt this country, which I have served with honor for over 35 years, or to undermine the integrity of our democratic process, is an appalling and detestable lie.”
Much has been made of Sessions’s April 27, 2016, “meeting” with Ambassador Kislyak at Washington, D.C.’s Mayflower Hotel. Presumably this is where Sessions and Kislyak put the finishing flourishes on the RNC/KGB plot to ease The Donald from Trump Tower to the Oval Office.
The Center for the National Interest has poured ice water all over this mirage. CNI organized the forum where then-candidate Trump delivered a foreign-policy address.
“Ambassador Kislyak was one of four foreign ambassadors who attended the speech that day,” the Washington-based think tank explained in a March 8 statement, which Senator James Lankford (R., Okla.) invoked last week. “The Center for the National Interest extended equal treatment to the four ambassadors attending the event and invited each to a short reception prior to Mr. Trump’s speech.”
CNI’s statement continued:
The reception included approximately two dozen guests in a receiving line. The line moved quickly, and any conversations with Mr. Trump in that setting were inherently brief and could not be private. Our recollection is that the interaction between Mr. Trump and Ambassador Kislyak was limited to the polite exchange of pleasantries appropriate on such occasions.
We are not aware of any conversation between Ambassador Kislyak and Senator Jeff Sessions at the reception. However, in a small group setting like this one, we consider it unlikely that anyone could have engaged in a meaningful private conversation without drawing attention from others present.
This, believe it or not, is the cloak-and-dagger rendezvous for which Sessions has been pilloried.
Isn’t this the same Deroy Murdock that said Saddam Hussein masterminded the 911 attacks and assisted Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in caring it out?
Why yes! I believe it is.
@Ajay42302: Did you read the last line or just the headline?
This investigation has not only not been obstructed Trump himself said if any of his people were involved he would like to know it asap. They spied on the team illegally for over 9 months and couldnt find a thing.
The hilarious thing is they havent slowed Trump down much, thousands of regulations wiped off he books, Mexican gang members being deported, pedos jailed.
He is far far far from perfect, but he was a damn sight better than the alternative.
If you want to know what is really going on https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600Daily/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170620_ADM_1600-Daily#potd
I dont see basketball or golf with celebrities, the old guard media isnt reporting how hard he works.
@kitt:
Your response raises the question of if you and your orking claptrap friends compete for stupidity or to see who can respond in the most unhinged and asinine manner. Surely you and your masters must chuckle at the Mork and Mindy/Gilligan’s Island level of intelligence of your distracting buffoonery.
You actually used “Trump himself said” as a premise of one of your half baked arguments, as if the words of a serial liar has credibility. You then admit he isn’t perfect yet hold him to the highest esteem, even crediting the rhetoric of his controlled WH link as none other than all one needs to know who seeks the truth. You ignore the 3 million actual criminal undocumented that Obama deported while praising Trump who has deported law abiding mothers who happened to come over with their parents as toddlers. But then, I guess you just buy into the Trump meme that if you weren’t born here as pure white, you must be a rapist, drug dealer, and just unfit to hold high seats such as judgeship, President (because, well, black ones just weren’t born here and even if they were, they just aren’t like us), etc.
But of course, it’s hard to pin point precisely how a Trump licker thinks because they are just so damn inconsistent with logic, and seem to compete for stupidity.