Editors at Issues and Insights explain why the latest scandal involving the 44th president’s administration should lead to criminal charges.
With little fanfare, investigators are readying the release of names of those deep-state minions and leaders who broke the law in pursuing a bogus, politicized investigation of President Donald Trump for “colluding” with Russia during the 2016 election campaign. If the early reporting is accurate, it could be bigger than Watergate. …
… In recent weeks, with the nation distracted by other things, you might not know that a number of revelations from the ongoing investigations into the phony Russian-collusion scandal show that the Mueller investigation was bogus from the beginning, and that key Obama administration officials, including President Barack Obama himself, had a hand in keeping the spying on Trump going.
The idea that the investigation had been driven by a few Department of Justice and FBI underlings now lies in tatters. …
… Recently declassified memos and other documents show that the FBI tried to entrap former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, that Mueller investigators knew early on they had no evidence of Trump-Russian collusion, and that even Brennan hid intelligence showing that Russia’s Vladimir Putin favored Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016. …
… These are just a handful of the recent revelations indicating the “investigation” of Trump for alleged collusion with the Russians was in fact an illegal, sub rosa effort to undermine both his presidential campaign and, after he won, his presidency.
And contrary to the shrill denials emanating from the media, Obama knew all about it and hid the investigation from Trump during the transition.
The whole affair was a massive effort on many levels across at least three major agencies to subvert a presidential election, a presidency and our democratic republic. It is criminal, and one of the most disgraceful episodes in America’s long history.
