The Patriot Post Digest 10-25-2019

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The Patriot Post Digest 10-25-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest

Oct. 25, 2019

https://patriotpost.us/digests/66370-mid-day-digest-2019-10-25

THE FOUNDATION

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” —Thomas Paine (1776)

https://patriotpost.us/fqd/66364-founders-quote-daily-2019-10-25

IN TODAY’S EDITION

The deep state now faces a criminal probe over the Russia hoax.1
Dems don’t want the whistleblower to testify because it won’t help them.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.

IN BRIEF

Dems’ Russia-Collusion Charade — The Criminal Investigation10

We learned Thursday that U.S. Attorney John Durham’s Justice Department probe into the origins of the Russia-collusion hoax11 — a hoax that began as an intelligence investigation known as Crossfire Hurricane12 — has now become a criminal investigation. As Fox News explains, “The investigation’s new status means Durham can subpoena witnesses, file charges, and impanel fact-finding grand juries.” This is a significant development because it means that Durham has uncovered some form of criminal activity, though exactly what the crime is and the degree and scope of it is not yet known.

This is clearly not the news Democrats, fully invested in their partisan anti-Trump impeachment campaign, wanted to hear. In a joint statement, Democrat House Committee Chairmen Jerry Nadler (NY) and Adam Schiff (CA) responded, “These reports, if true, raise profound new concerns that the Department of Justice under Attorney General William Barr has lost its independence and become a vehicle for President [Donald] Trump’s political revenge. If the Department of Justice may be used as a tool of political retribution, or to help the President with a political narrative for the next election, the rule of law will suffer.”

Noting the irony of Nadler and Schiff’s statement, Mark Alexander comments, “So now that the Mueller investigation built on a partisan deep-state coup collapsed, any criminal investigation into its origins must be partisan. We are in very dangerous territory here with respect to our Constitution and Rule of Law, given that deep-state operatives and the federal government attempted to overthrow the president, and now those who should be, ostensibly, overseeing those agencies have become their protecters.”

It now appears what triggered the probe’s change to a criminal investigation followed a recent meeting in Rome, Italy, where Durham and Attorney General William Barr met with “high-level Italian security agents.” Rome is a significant piece in this puzzle due to it being the location where Page met with Joseph Mifsud, a professor who first told Page that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton. This may have been where a deep-state plot to tie the Russian-collusion hoax to then-candidate Trump was initiated. All roads lead to Rome?

There’s also news that Durham is planning to interview several FBI and CIA officials, which has prompted some to hire attorneys. Furthermore, there’s word that Durham wants to question both former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan, the latter in particular a key coup co-conspirator13.

Finally, Horowitz’s soon-to-be released report may shed more light onto the direction of Durham’s criminal investigation. But all we know now is that Durham’s digging has turned up something criminal, and it appears that some folks are beginning to run for cover.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66362-dems-russia-collusion-charade-the-criminal-investigation

Democrats Continue to Hide Whistleblower Identity14

Adam Schiff, chairman of the powerful House Intelligence Committee, lied about his contact with the so-called whistleblower15. He’s been holding closed-door hearings to keep the Democrats’ impeachment efforts shrouded in secrecy16. And he’s had the gall to say the whistleblower may not need to testify because other witnesses are proving to be damning enough. But we’re supposed to believe Democrats are conducting their attempted impeachment coup17 on the up and up.

Nearly two weeks ago, Schiff was already hinting that the whistleblower’s testimony “might not be necessary.” Several Democrats involved in the impeachment “inquiry” are now insisting it’s not necessary. “It’s quite clear we have a surfeit of evidence that corroborates in full every aspect of what happened,” said Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA). Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-MD) added, “The whistleblower will go down in history as a hero for kicking off this process. But the whistleblower is no longer integral to the investigation in any way.”

The whistleblower is a political hack who coordinated with a Democrat hack, but why quibble over semantics?

It’s true that President Donald Trump’s careless words to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky provided the opening for Democrats to pivot from their utterly failed Russia-collusion narrative after the nothingburger that was Robert Mueller’s report18 to Trump’s supposed improprieties in advance of the 2020 election. But it’s not exactly self-evident, as Democrats want us to believe, that Trump committed an impeachable offense by requesting help from an ally to investigate shenanigans in the 2016 election. Shenanigans that, by the way, involved Democrat contacts in Ukraine.

And given what we already know about Schiff and the whistleblower, it’s clear that Democrats, who are carefully scripting the impeachment narrative via strategic leaks and the like, know that having the whistleblower testify won’t actually help their case. Beyond that collusion, there are unanswered questions about the whistleblower reporting form19 — questions Democrats almost certainly don’t want answered by giving Republicans a chance at cross-examination.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66334-democrats-continue-to-hide-whistleblower-identity

ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY

Featured Analysis: The Insufficient Nanny State20 — Even the trillions spent by the government to eradicate poverty are not “enough.”
AOC Hits Facebook for Failing to Censor Conservatives21 — Leftist Democrats attack the First Amendment in Zuckerberg hearing.
Grassroots Perspective: The Myth of Tolerance, Part Two22 — Remember: If we do not have justice for all, we don’t have justice at all.
Video: Are Dems Desperate Enough to Run Hillary?23 — Ben Shapiro is suspicious she is gearing up for a possible third run at the White House.
Video: Trump Uses ‘Lynching’ in a Tweet!24 — The media went into a frenzy over Trump’s comments about the impeachment inquiry.