Radicals, Resistance, and Revenge: The Left’s Plot to Remake America Read online

  They are not going quietly into the night and it will be a joy to watch.

  CHAPTER FOUR

  Rats Desert the Ship

  I’ve said for the better part of two years that holier-than-thou former FBI director Cardinal James Comey was the head of his own crime family. The upper echelon of the FBI under his direction operated like an organized criminal enterprise. But only the upper echelon: the rank and file wouldn’t have tolerated this. Even Bill Barr questioned it.

  “The thing that’s interesting about this is that this was handled at a very senior level of these departments,” Barr told Fox News. “It wasn’t handled in the ordinary way that investigations or counterintelligence activities are conducted. It was sort of an ad hoc small group and most of these people are no longer with the FBI or the CIA or the other agencies involved.”1 Barr is absolutely right. Field offices generally handle investigations and these investigations are reviewed at the upper levels.

  For over two years, Comey and his gang—McCabe, Strzok, Baker, Page, Brennan, Clapper, and others—all riffed on how horrible President Trump was, calling him treasonous, a Russian puppet or a Russian asset. They got away with it primarily because the mainstream media were receptive to their hateful narrative. After all, these were men in high positions in our government protecting us from Russia and those positions demand respect. Just as the office of the presidency demands respect, but not from this biased group.

  If the truth be told, they were selling our democracy down the river so they could avenge Hillary’s loss and remake America to benefit themselves. They were skilled at their jobs, leaking information to the media to get news stories to not only poison public opinion, but to undermine candidate Trump and to later create the basis to support a bloodless coup against President Trump.

  Now, as with any criminal conspiracy, the players are arrogant and think they are above the law. But mistakes are always made. Also, like any conspiracy, the conspirators can never keep their stories straight. Here’s one example: Comey told the president-elect the Steele dossier was unverified in January 2017. But he had already told the FISA court in October 2016 the dossier was verified when he used it to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump’s campaign.2 We now know he knew the truth about the document long before that FISA application. He knew it was a political document, not an intelligence document, but used it to get a FISA warrant anyway.

  That, friends, sounds like a felony.

  Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI, is already under criminal investigation as a result of a referral by the inspector general. He claims that he’s a victim in all of this and that his firing is the result of attacks designed to undermine him—as if anyone knows or even cares about Andrew McCabe. McCabe lied under oath to both the FBI and to the inspector general.3 It appears he leaked like a faucet, then when given a chance to come clean, he blamed Comey, another leaker. It’s no wonder Attorney General Barr can’t get his arms around any of this.

  As I said, Barr is a cool cat. When the Mueller investigation came up empty, the Democrats hyperventilated and immediately pivoted to attack Barr, hysterically accusing him of everything they could think of, and holding him in contempt of Congress. Since there was no basis for their attack, Barr remained unphased.

  “I thought that when I came in from the outside that all of the questions that I had and many other people had would be readily answered, once I got in. But I haven’t found that to be the case,” Barr told Fox’s Bill Hemmer.4 He went on to say that not only have the answers he’s received been inadequate, but that some of the explanations he has been given “don’t hang together.”

  Let me translate that for you. He knows at least some of the conspirators are lying. He hasn’t said that explicitly because he’s proceeding slowly and analytically, and the investigation is not yet over. But James Comey certainly knows what he means. So does Clapper, Brennan, and the rest of the conspirators.

  Let me tell you something: I was a pretty tough prosecutor myself and I’d be terrified to have Barr on my trail. He’s like a locomotive moving two miles per hour that you can’t knock off its track. You can call it names, accuse it of partisanship, or hold it in contempt. It doesn’t speed up or slow down. It’s going to keep rolling until it gets to its destination and God help anyone who gets in its way. It’s inevitable Barr will revisit the players and the whole purpose of the Trump Resistance and the attempt to drag Hillary Clinton across the finish line. The investigation will certainly have to address Hillary’s role in all of this.

  Plotters Pointing Fingers

  Barr has all the conspirators pointing fingers at each other to save their own butts. Comey is now trashing Rod Rosenstein, saying Rosenstein didn’t have anywhere near the “inner strength” to stand up to Donald Trump.5 Comey claims those in the White House feel a sense of duty to protect the American people and says they compromise their values and praise the president insincerely to remain in the Trump administration. “And then you are lost,” Comey added. “He has eaten your soul.”6

  Jim, I don’t know if you were smoking something out in the woods looking for Hillary, or if you just got too much fresh air, but you’ve lost it. Eaten your soul? Maybe you rediscovered your inner communist in the wilderness, answering the question you were unable to answer back in 2003. “I voted for Reagan—I’d moved from Communist to whatever I am now. I’m not even sure how to characterize myself politically. Maybe at some point, I’ll have to figure it out,” you told reporter Chris Smith of New York.7 You certainly sound as loony as the looniest of the far Left when you say the president eats souls.

  Rosenstein responded by calling Comey “a partisan pundit, selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul.” He added, “That is disappointing. Speculating about souls is not a job for police and prosecutors. Generally, we base our opinions on eyewitness testimony.”8

  Comey is also in a finger-pointing duel with former CIA Director John Brennan. This one I can’t wait to watch play out. They’re both accusing each other of being liars and being the first to put the fake dossier into the intelligence community. Brennan says the Barr investigation into the investigators of the Russia collusion delusion is “crazy.” It’s nothing more than a fishing expedition. Can you believe the irony? The fishing expedition is what he and his Deep State comrades have been conducting against President Trump for the past three years. And even after the Mueller report cleared the president, they don’t have the good sense to take their lines out of the water and paddle their leaky boat back home. Forget about an apology.

  Two months after Mueller turned in his report saying there was no collusion with Russia by the Trump campaign, California Democrat representative Eric Swalwell was on Fox News Sunday saying Mueller was wrong, as if this guy Swalwell had done anywhere near the investigation Mueller did. He resurrected the ridiculous claim that a joke the president made while campaigning—that “if the Russians want to find those thirty thousand emails that Hillary Clinton deleted, I’m sure the media will be interested in that”—amounted to colluding with the Russians on hacking the DNC email server. Even Chris Wallace, who hasn’t shied away from criticizing Bill Barr’s handling of the Mueller report, scoffed at that one.9 But then again, if you’re at the bottom of twenty-four radicals running for president, I suppose you have to say something radical yourself.

  Maybe John Brennan will start calling the president a traitor again, something he did for two years, until the Mueller report was released, and he got called out for the buffoon he is. “Well, I don’t know if I received bad information, but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was,” Brennan told Morning Joe. “I am relieved that it’s been determined there was not a criminal conspiracy with the Russian government over our election.”10

  Have you noticed that John Brennan always uses the excuse “I had bad intelligence?” This guy was the head of the CIA! It’s called the Central In
telligence Agency for a reason. Maybe its director should have been focusing on intelligence instead of trying to overturn an election. Who knows? Maybe then the Obama administration would have succeeded at something: preventing Russia from meddling in the election, effectively or not. Then again, maybe Brennan and Comey, who are accusing each other, are both right about one thing. They’re both lying.

  One amazing part of all this is that there is no more denying the existence of a “Deep State.” Instead, its members are saying, “Hey, it wasn’t me. The Deep State is over there. I’m not one of them.”

  There are a lot of people saying Brennan was the ringleader of this coup attempt and he very well may have been. As director of the CIA, he was arguably the most powerful person involved in the plot, although the Director of National Intelligence, Clueless James Clapper, is technically over the CIA director on the official organizational chart. But like so many others, Brennan points his finger at Comey and makes one wonder if maybe they’re onto something.

  Even James Baker, the former FBI top lawyer accused of illegally leaking to authorities, subtly directed attention at Comey with a Left-handed compliment that sounded like it was inspired by my last book, Liars, Leakers, and Liberals. I called the former FBI Director “J. Edgar Comey” because his dirty tactics were so similar to those of the corrupt former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Baker went on the Yahoo! News Skullduggery podcast and made a similar reference, although he tried to spin it as if he and Comey were trying to avoid the appearance of Hooveresque blackmail tactics:

  Jim and I had talked many times over the years about the Hoover days, especially the investigation of Martin Luther King, Jr., what was done there, the blackmailing of Dr. Martin Luther King. And, so, yeah, we were quite worried about that, quite worried about how that would come off and so we wanted to try to make sure to convey to the president-elect that that’s what we were not doing.11

  I’m not sure if Baker is delusional or if that is a coded message to Bill Barr: “Hey Bill, here’s a narrative that will sound good at Comey’s trial. He was blackmailing the president-elect, just like former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Call me, I’m ready to make a deal.”

  Maybe Baker can use my last book as a reference.

  Even Loretta Lynch is looking for a life raft, although she shouldn’t need one. Rats can swim. She told a joint closed-door session of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees last December that Comey’s repeated statements, under oath, that she directed him to refer to the Clinton email investigation as a “matter” rather than an investigation were untrue.12

  Folks, they can’t both be telling the truth. At least one of them lied under oath to Congress, which constitutes two separate felonies, and for which others have been convicted or indicted. If they don’t indict either Comey or Lynch for these contradictory statements, are they going to drop the charges against Roger Stone and let Lying Michael Cohen out of jail? Lynch and Comey have lied so often, it’s hard to tell if they have any familiarity with the truth. Loretta Lynch, after she met Bill Clinton on the tarmac and refused to let anyone make any reports or take pictures, denied she talked to Bill Clinton about Hillary’s case.

  Gee, do you think Loretta told Bill what he and Hillary wanted to hear on that airplane? Loretta Lynch denied there were any communications between the Justice Department and the FBI regarding that conversation, but we later found out there were, using different emails, and Loretta Lynch in fact had her own pseudonym that she used to email about this.13

  Here’s the bottom line. This finger-pointing is not happening between lawyers in private rooms. It’s happening in the public square for all to see. They know that Bill Barr is a serious prosecutor who has appointed another serious prosecutor, John Durham, to review the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

  Indictments are his stock-in-trade. He is looking into the CIA’s role and the FBI’s role, which will inevitably lead him to the roles of Susan Rice, Samantha Power, and good ol’ Loretta Lynch—all compromised by their political agenda to destroy Donald Trump, America be damned.

  And get this. Comey says the guy he most admires in government is Clueless Clapper, another liar and leaker. This bozo, like Comey, flatly denied leaking the dossier. Back in January 2017, he even issued a statement that assured the incoming president that neither he nor anyone in the intel community was responsible for the leak.14

  When Clapper appeared before a congressional committee, he stuck to that story at first, flatly denying leaking the dossier to the media. But later, he admitted he told CNN’s Jake Tapper and possibly other news outlets about it, according to a report on his testimony from House Republicans.15

  Is this guy incapable of telling the truth about anything? And why is he still walking the streets a free man, while so many others have been prosecuted for the same thing? Members of the Deep State have an automatic get-out-of-jail-free card.

  As I said in the last chapter, this is the reason for the otherwise inexplicable disinformation campaign against Bill Barr. The Deep State and its media allies spent two years trying to bring down the Trump presidency based on a phony theory that many people broke laws to concoct and then broke laws to cover up. Now, the coup has failed, and the perpetrators are trying to discredit the lawman who has picked up their trail. If they can’t discredit him, they’ll all rat on each other to save their corrupt skins.

  Prosecuting the Resistance

  Conspiracies are by their very nature secret. But even their own testimony to Congress creates a slew of possible charges that could be brought against the conspirators.

  For the record, eleven Republican members of the House of Representatives wrote a criminal referral to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions way back in April 2018, recommending key members of the plot to overthrow Trump be prosecuted.16 Maybe the problem was it landed on Sessions’s desk. He wouldn’t see it there because he was hiding under his desk from the Democrats or whatever scared him silly enough to recuse himself from the entire Trump administration.

  Now, as opposed to the Russia collusion delusion, fabricated out of thin air and the fever dreams of vengeful radical Democrats, the evidence against Cardinal Comey and his pals is largely public knowledge. It is based on their own words, both written and verbal, and in some cases in testimony to Congress or in official documents written by them on government time.

  We all remember Cardinal Comey’s melodramatic press conference of July 5, 2016, during which he tried to use deceptive language to justify not charging Hillary with the mishandling of classified information. He avoided saying she’d been grossly negligent in her handling of classified documents, instead calling it “extremely careless,” even though grossly negligent and extremely careless mean the same thing. In fact, an early draft of the memo exonerating Clinton used the words grossly negligent, but Comey’s co-conspirator Peter Strzok changed them to extremely careless, because grossly negligent are the words used in 18 US Code § 793 to describe one way a person might illegally mishandle classified information.

  Comey went on to say the so-called investigation of Crooked Hillary failed to find intent to mishandle or disclose classified information, even though the same statute clearly states intent is not a necessary element of the crime if the perpetrator is grossly negligent. In a nutshell, Comey explicitly announced to the world that Hillary had violated 18 US Code § 793 and then usurped the power of the attorney general by announcing his agency was not recommending prosecution, one of the key reasons he was ultimately fired.

  If all that weren’t bad enough, it turns out Comey drafted the memo exonerating Clinton months before she was even interviewed by the FBI!17 We found out about this through the emails, text messages, and congressional investigations. Comey was forced to admit that he did so in his own book, but tried to justify doing so by saying, “competent people think ahead.”18 Sure, competent people think ahead, but they don’t waste their time drafting memos with a conclusion until they’ve investigated to the point of
conclusion.

  Yes, he had a plan all along to cut Hillary loose. To the extent this was done to try to affect the outcome of an election, it’s un-American. But let me tell you what else it is for a sworn officer of the law to act in this manner: it’s illegal. The House GOP criminal referral recommended investigating whether Comey violated 18 US Code § 1505 and 18 US Code § 1515(b) based on his conduct in this matter, both having to do with whether or not Comey obstructed federal proceedings.

  He didn’t just break the law by getting Hillary off the hook. Remember those infamous memos Comey wrote about his private meetings with President Trump? These are the memos that Comey told a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence he “asked a friend of mine to share the content” to the New York Times. We later found out the friend was Daniel Richman, a professor at Columbia Law School. What Comey was reticent to admit until much later, was that Daniel Richman was a nongovernment employee who had access to information and should have been briefed on the illegality of leaking classified and other government documents, meaning Richman, too, could be charged with a crime.

  Well, it turns out that at least some of the information in the memos Comey leaked was classified, meaning he could be charged under 18 US Code § 641, 18 US Code § 793 and 18 US Code § 1924(a)—the same statutes that should have formed the basis for charges against Crooked Hillary for putting classified information on her private email server!

  Maybe Cardinal Comey had become so arrogant or so delusional that he believed he could abolish these statutes by fiat. Or, more likely, it’s just another example of how those in the Washington Swamp believe the rules don’t apply to them. They’re not just above the law; they’re above the results of elections, above any scrutiny by the public, and above all reproach.