President Trump and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar : "There is a tide in the affairs of men..."

THE REAL NEWS OF THE DAY IS THAT SHAKESPEARE'S MESSAGES TO US MODERNS NEVER STOP. In "Julius Caesar," Brutus and Cassius kill Caesar because he had become a dictator, betraying the Roman Republic. Brutus says : "He would be crown'd : How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder." Today, we might call Caesar and his imperialist followers not "adders," that is snakes, but Swamp Creatures. But, Brutus and his republican band made the strategic error of letting Marc Antony plot their downfall. They believed Antony agreed with them about saving the Republic and allowed him to deliver the famous speech -- "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them." But, Antony's speech was meant to arouse the "low information" Roman masses who loved Caesar because he "bought" them with gifts of money and food and public entertainments. So, the rioting and mustering of an army by Marc Antony made it necessary for the republicans under Brutus finally to do battle with Antony and his ally, Octavius, who both wanted to be Emperor as Caesar was. Before the battle, Antony tells Octavius not to worry; they will win because he has spies in the camp of Brutus : "I am in their bosoms, and I know Wherefore they do it : they...come down With fearful bravery, thinking by this face To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage; But 'tis not so." Today, we might call the allies of President Trump the Republican elites who join him in trying to save the Republic, but do so with halfhearted conviction because they also like the perks of being the elite in a growing dictatorship. • Just before he went into battle, Brutus delivered the famous warning to his ally Cassius : "You must note beside, That we have tried the utmost of our friends, Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe : The enemy increaseth every day; We, at the height, are ready to decline. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures." (Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene 3.) • • • THERE IS A TIDE IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN. That brings us to today's battle for the soul of the American Republic. In a real sense, President Trump is Brutus, who has 'killed' Caesar -- that is, the Progressive Democrats and their leaders, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton -- not with knives but by an election. But, like Marc Antony, the Progressives will not admit defeat and are plotting to overthrow the saviors of the Republic by destroying Trump, not on a real battllefield, but with the arcane and convoluted insider rules that are used on the 'battlefield' of Washington DC's elite Swamp Creatures. And, all signs have been pointing to President Trump and his Republican supporters being overwhelmed by the Swamp Creatures who use insider rules to overpower the intent of the Constitution's election procedures. • But, in the past week, there have also been signs that President Trump is gaining ground and could win the battle to save American Republic. More important, it seems that Trump has realized that without re-inforcing and re-energizing his actions on behalf of America, he faces the likelihood of being defeated by the Swamp Creatures who despise him and the American Republic. Here are some of the signs that favor President Trump. • • • FUNDRAISING. "Follow the money." Well, the Republican National Committee set another fundraising record of $13.4 million in the month of June, bringing their total 2017 fundraising effort to an impressive $75.3 million. This is the highest sum the RNC has ever -- ever -- raised in a non-presidential election year. The RNC now has $44.7 million in the bank. RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel credited the figures to the RNC’s “loyal network of grassroots donors” supportive of President Trump’s agenda. RNC Finance Chariman Steve Wynn said : "Month after month, the RNC continues to break fundraising records, another testament to the overwhelming support this Republican administration continues to receive from Alaska to Alabama. It has never been more evident that Republicans are united towards a common goal of making this country great again.” • Compare this to the Democratic National Committee's results -- the Democratic Party had its worst April and May since 2003, raising $4.7 million and $4.29 million, respectively. AND, the Democratic National Committee is $3.3 million in debt, according to its June Federal Election Commission report. • Follow the Money -- and the polls. A poll conducted July 10-13 by the Washington Post and ABC News shows that while 37% of Americans believe the Democrats stand for something, 52% believe that the Democrats just stand against Trump. • • • THE SUPREME COURT. Despite the spin mainstream media lapdogs are putting on the latest short Court order, the US Supreme Court did not "deal a blow" to President Donald Trump's travel ban last Wednesday. The Court only expanded the list provided by Trump's executive order to include grandparents and the possibility of other "relatives." The three-sentence order by the justices -- who last month let the President start restricting entry by people from six mostly Moslem countries -- also gave Trump a partial win on a separate issue, temporarily blocking a lower court ruling that would have opened the way for potentially thousands of refugees to enter the country in the coming months. That portion of the Supreme Court order applies while the administration appeals on that issue to a federal appellate court in San Francisco. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented from part of Wednesday’s order, saying they would have let Trump also refuse entry to grandparents and other relatives while the case is on appeal. The Supreme Court plans to hear arguments October 10 on the travel ban. The latest argument centered on the rules that will apply until then. • President Trump now has the upper hand on immigration control and will need to follow through strongly in October's oral arguments and briefs at the Supreme Court. • • • ATTORNEY GENERAL SESSIONS. President Trump's attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a New York Times interview last week shocked most of us, I know. Jeff Sessions was Donald Trump's first Senate supporter, stepping up at a time when the Washington GOP considered Trump a clown. So, when President Trump told the New York Times in an interview Wednesday that he never would have appointed Jeff Sessions as attorney general had he known Sessions would recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, it was an extraordinary denunciation. The announcement that Sessions would step back from the investigation surprised Trump, who told the NYT that the attorney general gave him "zero" warning before recusing himself. Trump said Sessions' decision to recuse himself from all matters related to Russia was "very unfair to the President." That is certainly also something that we can all agree with. • Sessions seemed to be pushed aside by his finnicky attachment to what his former Senate colleagues would think of him, and he explained under oath to a Senate committee that he felt sure he should recuse himself because of the "appearance" of conflict in the Russian matter. • But, as we have come to understand, when President Trump strikes out at someone or something, he usually has more information than the public and the MSM know about. In the case of AG Sessions, many media outlets reported after Trump's NYT interview that intelligence shows that Sessions spoke to the Russian ambassador about issues related to President Trump’s campaign, despite his public denials about making such interactions, according to an Intel report. Sessions’ conversations with Sergey Kislyak were repeated by the ambassador in subsequent discussions with the Russian government that were intercepted by US intelligence agencies, according to the Washington Post. Sessions recused himself from any investigations involving Russia when it became public that he met with Kislyak. However, he insisted he never discussed campaign-related issues with any Russian officials : “I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign." • Given the new information, a US official said Sessions has provided “misleading” statements that are “contradicted by other evidence.” It is called lying under oath, IF -- IF-- the allegations about the content of the Sessions conversation with Kislyak are true. I say "if" because the Intel report is not public and is being quoted by the Washington Post from intercepted Russian communications -- two big 'fake news' question marks. But, if President Trump knew about the Intel -- a very great likelihood -- when he spoke with the NYT, then he may have been giving Sessions a way out. Saying in effect that Sessions had lost his confidence would have made it 'easy' for Sessions to bow out as AG before the Intel report surfaced. • The other handle on the Trump attack on Sessions comes from Sessions' seeming timid management of the Justice Department agenda. We know of no FBI investigations begun, no grand juries called, no DOJ recommendations to Congress about possible investigations -- nothing to suggest that the Sessions DOJ / FBI is tracking the illegal activities of Hillary, the Clinton Foundation, the Obama White House, or even the Mueller Special Counsel investigation. Some of this is undoubtedly related to Sessions' recusal -- leaving Washington insider Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to call the shots on all Russia-related matters at the DOJ and FBI. That is absolutely "very unfair to the President,' who, as every President, must have his own counsel as Attorney General. Sessions has failed that fundamental test. Now, we could even ask if Sessions is actually so partial to the Swamp Creatures despite their vendetta against Trump that he is not a good counsel to the President. • • • THE MUELLER CARD. In the NYT interview, Trump also appeared to suggest that he has damaging information on former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who is now Special Counsel investigating Trump - Russia election collusion allegations. Trump told the NYT that Mueller's selection for the job was a conflict of interest because Trump had interviewed him to serve as the replacement FBI director. Trump also said : "There were many other conflicts that I haven't said, but I will at some point." We have learned never to underestimate Trump when he says something like that. • One of President Trump's warnings to Mueller was his advice not to investigate his family's finances beyond the Russia probe. President Trump told the New York Times : “I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about Russia." • Trump also said he wasn’t ruling out firing Mueller as Special Counsel on the Russia probe. He did not say that he would order the DOJ to fire Mueller or under what circumstances he would fire him, but he indicated Mueller's investigation of his family's finances would cross a line. Trump stated that Mueller’s office had several conflicts of interest, including Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. Trump said Rosenstein was playing both sides in Trump’s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey by recommending the firing but then appointing Mueller as Special Counsel. • Reports emerged last month that Trump was considering firing Mueller. The rumors drew criticism from both Democrat and Republican lawmakers. The White House pushed back against those reports, saying Trump had “no intention” of firing the special counsel. • But, ex-Trump advisor Sam Nunberg told Newsmax on Thursday that President Trump should "lower the boom" on Robert Mueller -- because the ex-FBI chief could topple the Commander-in-Chief and the GOP's hold on Congress. Nunberg told Newsmax : "Yes. I think he should. He should fire him. This is a cloud on the administration and this can result in not only us losing the Congress for no reason because of this kangaroo investigation going on, but it could result in possibly this administration going down." Nunberg, a New York City-based attorney with a hot-and-cold relationship with Trump, said Thursday on Newsmax that Session's decision, which put Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in charge of the Russia probe : "did not serve the President well....Then [Rosenstein] summarily appoints Mueller, who is leading a kangaroo investigation. It's like Kafka-esque....[Rosenstein] apparently is part of the Washington, Georgetown elite -- and wanting to rehabilitate himself with them after writing the Comey memo to get Comey fired -- appoints Mueller." • If, as is being reported by the gloating MSM, Mueller is actually investigating transactions involving Trump's businesses as well as those of his associates, then President Trump is on solid ground to say that digging around in matters beyond Russia would be out of bounds. Trump’s businesses have involved Russians for years, making the boundaries fuzzy so Special Counsel Mueller appears to be taking a very wide-angle approach to his two-month-old probe. FBI investigators and others are looking at Russian purchases of apartments in Trump buildings, Trump’s involvement in a SoHo development with Russian associates, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and Trump’s sale of a Florida mansion to a Russian oligarch in 2008, a person familiar with the special counsel investigation told Newsmax. • Agents are also interested in dealings with the Bank of Cyprus, where Wilbur Ross served as vice chairman before he became Commerce Secretary, as well as the efforts of Jared Kushner, the President’s son-in-law and White House aide, to secure financing for some of his family’s real estate properties. This information also was provided by someone familiar with the inquiry but not authorized to speak publicly -- yet authorized to smear the President and his Cabinet, it seems. What is particularly galling about Mueller's actions is the fact that all these Trump business activities are a matter of public record, but before the Russia "collusion" fake news was concocted by the ProgDems, none of the activities was of any political interest. • AND, all this digging into old Trump business activities arises because Special Counsel Mueller has no effective supervision at the DOJ -- because recused AG Sessions cannot touch Mueller's activities, leaving the investigation in the hands of Rosenstein and other Deep State anti-Trump bureaucrats. That is what makes Sessions' recusal so unfair to the President, who has nobody in his own DOJ actually working to hold Mueller and his Progressive Democrat and MSM comrades in line. • President Trump now seems to have a handle on Mueller's overreach because of Mueller's conflicts of interest. It is time to use the conflicts of interest to topple Mueller. • • • FUSION GPS. And, in a development on the Russia front tailor-made for Trump, Fox News Politics reported on Friday that the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the company behind the sensational -- and ultimately proven to be mostly lies -- Trump-Russia dossier, will plead the Fifth Amendment, refusing to talk to Congress after being subpoenaed. Glenn Simpson, whose Fusion GPS firm has been tied to anti-Trump efforts and pro-Russian lobbying, will not talk to lawmakers, as confirmed to Fox News by the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committe -- Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, and ranking member Dianne Feinstein. They subpoenaed Simpson to appear before the committee Wednesday as part of a hearing about the influence of foreign lobbying in last year's presidential election. But, Grassely and Feinstein said : "Simpson’s attorney has asserted that his client will invoke his Fifth Amendment rights in response to the subpoena." • During the campaign, Fusion GPS contracted former MI-6 agent Christopher Steele to look into rumors about Trump's financial and social connections in Russia, a move allegedly begun by the Hillary campaign. The resulting "dossier," which was leaked to the media following Trump's victory in November included a number of sordid allegations about the President's sexual activities. And, last week, Fox News reported that Fusion GPS had ties to Russian efforts to undermine US sanctions that were led by attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, who became the center of a political storm earlier this month after Donald Trump Jr. made public a string of emails indicating that he had met with her on the promise of receiving damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Grassley and Feinstein also noted that both Trump Jr. and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who sat in on the meeting, had agreed to be interviewed by committee members and staff. • Fusion GPS has said it had nothing to do with the Trump Jr.-Veselnitskaya meeting : “Fusion GPS learned about this meeting from news reports and had no prior knowledge of it. Any claim that Fusion GPS arranged or facilitated this meeting in any way is absolutely false,” the company said in a statement. • This story works particularly in President Trump's favor because Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley is asking top Trump administration officials to explain why Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya who met with Donald Trump Jr. last year was allowed in the country. Grassley is not accusing the Trump administration of wrongdsoing, but is asking for records from the Obama administration era. Grassely sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asking why Natalia Veselnitskaya was allowed to stay in the country when, according to court documents, she had to leave in early 2016. Grassley wrote : "It is unclear how she was still in the country for that meeting despite being denied a visa beforehand and her parole purportedly expiring on January 7, 2016. This raises serious questions about whether the Obama administration authorized her to remain in the country, and if so, why?" Grassley is asking Tillerson if Veselnitskaya applied for a visa and for any details of a potential application, including whether she had to go through any additional procedures. He wants DHS to say if Veselnitskaya is currently in the United States. She previously said that she was granted a parole letter to enter the United States to argue a court case. Grassley wants to know about any restrictions or extensions of her parole, what agencies were involved in the decision, dates when she left or entered the country, and listed addresses. • The June 2016 meeting resulted in no information being given to Donald Trump Jr., and Veselnitskaya told the Associated Press last week that she did not represent the Russian government and "never had compromising information and could not have had." The New York Times reported Sunday that Veselnitskaya has advocated for the Russian government in the past and that her clients have included "state-owned businesses and a senior government official's son." The Kremlin has denied knowledge of the meeting and says it has no connections to Veselnitskaya. • The alleged Fusion GPS role in organizing the meeting raises questions about whether Donald Trump Jr. was "set up" by the Progressive Democrats and Hillary Clinton -- Fusion GPS has apparently done work for her campaign in the past. • This makes it a perfect mechanism for President Trump to use to turn the Russian fake news back against the ProgDems and Hillary's dirty tricks. • • • YES, DEAR READERS, there is a tide in the affairs of men. There are many indications that President Trump is at such a "tide" in his presidency and "must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures." Shakespeare knew from reading his history that Brutus and his republican allies lost the battle against Marc Antony and the imperialist elite that had overturned the Roman Republic because Brutus waited too long to attack. But, even Marc Antony had to say of Brutus, who died in the last battle : "His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world 'This was a man!" • Brutus lost the battle and the Roman Republic was lost forever. The rest of the history of the Roman Empire was that of a string of emperors unfit to rule and of military and mercenary allies taking advantage of the weak Roman Senate to infiltrate and defeat Rome and turn it over to barbarians who led Europe into the Dark Ages. • Today, President Trump stands between the American Republic and its imperialist Progressive elites who are determined to destroy him and constitutional America. Like Brutus, Trump has "right" on his side, and like Brutus, he has an often weak and divided set of allies who cannot decide whether their own futures or the survival of the American Republic is more important to them personally. We Deplorables know the answer to that question. So does President Trump. So, now is the time for the President and us to seize the tide that is forming and ride it to victory for America, pushing the Swamp Creatures out as the Trump tide surges and takes the American Republic to a safe shore.