HELP WANTED : Seeking World-class Constitutional Law Counsel to Assist President in Battle with Swamp Creatures

TODAY IS FRIDAY THE 13TH AND THE REAL NEWS IS ALL ABOUT POLITICS. American 21st century style. And, it ain't pretty, dear readers. • • • PROGDEMS AND DEEP STATE HAVE ABANDONED THE CONSTITUTION. It's because of their illogical and self-righteous hatred of Donald Trump. • American Thinker's Steve Grammatico wrote on Friday that : "Unlike the principals in Watergate [Nixon, Baker] who calmed the country, the cabal working to prosecute and delegitimize Trump appears unconcerned by the poison it's injected into the body politic. Its members are oblivious to the damage being done to our institutions as they wage their jihad. Or maybe Trump-hatred is so blinding that they don't care about setting a dangerous precedent for opposition to future administrations." Grammatico points out that the vicious battle to destroy the Trump presidency is not playing out only in America : "In the here and now, the danger is real. Trump's ankle-biters seem unaware the world is watching the circus in Washington. Bad actors like Iran, Russia, and China see the president besieged and wonder if now is the time, while he's distracted, to try for some advantage. Kim Jong-un may calculate that it is not in his interest to deal with a President whose clout is diminishing by the day....The people who want to bring Trump down are not patriots. Their hatred for the president and his policies supersedes whatever respect they hold for the Constitution and our system. They proudly wear blinders, unmoved by the millions who are appalled by Mueller's crusade. The raging left doesn't understand the paradigm it's unleashed in American politics. What goes around comes around. However Mueller's quest plays out, he has midwifed a new era of partisan warfare in this country. That is his legacy. And his shame." • Another American Thinker writer, Dan Jones, gives this advice about Robert Mueller, whose job as the political hack hired by the Deep State to bring down President Trump, is failing on all fronts : "Special Counsel Robert Mueller must be watching and longing. He’s come up empty in his investigation of links between the Trump campaign and Russia, and so he’s has taken a new direction and moved his performance to the theater of the absurd. Midnight raids on Trump’s lawyer, reportedly in search of matters salacious and prurient, are the acts of a man who’s trying to get fired. Mueller calculates that the riches and reverence that would accrue from hearing Trump tell him 'You’re fired!' are far more appealing than being remembered for digging a dry hole. Which is why Trump mustn’t fire Mueller no matter what stunts he comes up with. So long as the President lets him keep his job, Mueller will become increasingly frustrated (and more brazen perhaps) as he sees fame and fortune slipping from his grasp....Ultimately, the absurdity of the Russia collusion narrative will become apparent and the narrators will be seen for what they are: conspirators who attempted to nullify the election of the President of the United States. There’s not much time left to cash in." • • • TRUMP FIRES BACK. The "watching and longing" Dan Jones was talking about is fired FBI director James Comey's media blitz, followed surely by a 15-minute raking in of dollars from sales of his salacious book that trashes Trump, but actually shows just how depraved Comey, the Deep State and its ProgDem mentors in Congress really are. The New York Post on Friday published these remarks of the President about Comey : "President Trump blasted former FBI Director James Comey as a 'LIAR & LEAKER' and a 'slime ball' on Friday after explosive excerpts emerged from his memoir -- and said he should be prosecuted for allegedly leaking classified material. 'James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired,' Trump tweeted. 'He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI,' he continued. 'His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst 'botch jobs' of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!' ” • Trump unleashed his attack after salacious details from Comey’s new book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,” were revealed, in addition to his comments to ABC News. The NYPost says : "In his new tell-all, which is due to hit the bookshelves Tuesday, Comey said the President reminded him of a mafia boss who demanded absolute loyalty, saw the entire world against him and lied about everything. Comey said Trump also was obsessed with the alleged existence of a video in which Russian prostitutes said to be hired by the President peed on the bed in a Moscow hotel room. Comey, whom Trump fired in May 2017, said the President has no sense of what is right and wrong. 'This President is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values,' he writes, according to excerpts. 'His leadership is transactional, ego-driven and about personal loyalty.' " • Comey said the President wanted him to investigate the allegations about the Moscow hotel room, but Comey said he advised President Trump not to do it : "I said to him, ‘Sir that’s up to you but you want to be careful about that because it might create a narrative that we’re investigating you personally and, second, it’s very difficult to prove something didn’t happen.” • That is the FIRST time any Deep Stater has said these words -- "it’s very difficult to prove something didn’t happen.” They apply not to Trump but to the entire ProgDem, Obama, Clinton, Comey, Mueller effort to ruin Trump and his presidency. IT IS very difficult to prove something did not happen. THAT IS THE ENTIRE STRATEGY behind the Fake Russia Dossier and the FBI-DOJ investigation and the appointment of Mueller as special counsel to investigate allegations in the Dossier that Trump colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election. They know the allegations are fake -- lies -- but they realize that it would be very difficult to disprove them. Voila! the ProgDem strategy to destroy Trump. FURTHER, we can safely assume that nobody -- nobody -- would ask for an investigation of anything if they actually knew they were guilty. Trump was by January 2017 no johnny-come-lately to the rough-cut non-justice of the ProgDems and their lapdog media and he would never have asked for an investigation of the Moscow allegations knowing that they were even fractionally true. Comey may piously utter the falsehoods for as long as he likes. America knows he is lying. We also remember that under oath Comey told Congress that the allegations in the Dossier were “unverified.” • End of story, Mr. Comey. • • • SOMETIMES NICE GUYS REALLY DO WIN. Restore American Glory published an article on Wednesday titled "Devin Nunes Fundraising Numbers Should be a Lesson to Republicans," quoting the Washington Examiner's report that Republican lawmaker and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes is set to report an extraordinary spike in fundraising donations to the Federal Election Commission in the coming days. Nunes, who has made a national name for himself as one of the only Republicans in Congress willing to forcefully pushback on the Left’s narrative against President Donald Trump, has been rewarded mightily by donors in the first quarter of 2018. He has posted campaign earnings of approximately $1.25 million for the period ending March 31, which is essentially what he raised in all of 2017. • Restore American Glory has some sound advice for Republicans : "The other Republicans wondering how to squeak out a victory in November might want to take the hint : Stand up for the duly-elected President of the United States against this massive witch hunt, and you may just find that you can close the enthusiasm gap with the Democrats. Hey, why not give it a whirl?" • According to one Republican strategist, who called Nunes’s numbers “impressive,” the California lawmaker has far exceeded the typical fundraising ceiling for a member of the House. “Even in targeted House races, a great fundraising quarter for a single candidate tends to top out in the $500,000 to $750,000 range,” the strategist told the Washington Examiner. • The conclusion here is really simple -- "Devin Nunes, this time in 2016, was virtually unknown outside his California district. Flash forward two years, and he’s one of the top fundraising Republican congressmen in the country, if not OF ALL TIME. And there’s a very obvious reason for that. Over the past two years, Nunes has essentially stuck out like a sore thumb in the House of Representatives. No, he’s not the only one who supports the President. No, he’s not the only one who has expressed skepticism about the official story we’re getting out of the DOJ and the intelligence community. But he IS the only one who has done ANYTHING of significance to actually push back. He IS the only one in the House who has done anything of worth to shed light on the failures and biases of the Obama Justice Department and their witch hunt into the Trump campaign. That makes him nothing less than a courageous patriot, and the voters and donors have taken notice. To be clear, this isn’t just about telling Republicans -- hey, no matter what, you need to have Trump’s back. NO! That’s not the point. The point is, the American people like to see their lawmakers go to Washington with a little bit of steel in their spine. That doesn’t mean pandering to Democrats like John McCain, either. It means doing the things that will get you utterly maligned by the mainstream media for no other reason than the fact that it is the right thing to do. That takes guts, and Nunes has proven over the last year that he has it in spades. Whatever money he’s bringing in, he deserves it and then some." • Three cheers for a Good Guy who has put the Republic above his own survival and succeeded in making us all proud. • • • JIM JORDAN AGREES WITH NUNES -- ROSENSTEIN / WRAY IMPEACHMENT IS STILL ON THE TABLE. Representative Jordan told Laura Ingraham on Thursday : "Impeachment remains an option. All I’m saying is that all should be on the table...We’ve been asking them for this information for five months. I think all those things should be on the table -- resignation, impeachment, contempt, all those things -- just like Chairman Nunes said last night.” • Jordan was referring to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who threatened Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray with impeachment and contempt of Congress for failure to comply with congressional subpoenas. Just one day later, DOJ finally allowed Nunes and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy to view a slightly redacted version of the two-page document in question. • Jordan called the DOJ’s cooperation a “small step in the right direction,” but he added, "You know, there’s still redactions in it. And sometimes I just go to the fundamentals. Why is it that folks in the Department of Justice get to see the unredacted things, but members of Congress elected by the people of this great country can’t see them in their unredacted forms?” • Jordan, like Nunes, has repeatedly made the point that they represent Americans and Americans should be treated fairly : "We're the ones elected by the people. What I know is the American people want answers, and you can't get answers to the American people to important questions that deal with their fundamental liberties if you don't have access to the information, into the documents that are pertinent to that, to the investigation." • Jordan also told Ingraham that two FBI officials at the heart of the controversy -- Peter Strzok and Lisa Page -- retain their security clearances and would be able to view the two-page document fully unredacted. Text messages between the two FBI officials revealed intense bias against President Trump and for 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton while the two were participating in the FBI's investigations aimed at Trump. Jordan said : "They are so compromised Mueller even kicked them off his team. But they still have a security clearance and members [of Congress] can't see [those] documents." • Although the DOJ provided the 2-page August 2 Memo written by Rosenstein to give guidance to Mueller, the DOJ has still failed to fully comply with congressional subpoenas for thousands of documents. For this reason, Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed US Attorney John Lausch of the Northern District of Illinois to speed up efforts to deliver documents lawmakers have been seeking for months. But if the process drags out too much longer, Jordan said there would be severe consequences for Rosenstein, Wray and Sessions : "My attitude is just like [Nunes']. If things don't change dramatically -- and I'm talking days, not weeks or months -- if they don't change dramatically, then impeachment and contempt and resignations should all be on the table. Because we're tired of it, and more importantly the American people are tired of it." • Another AMEN -- for Jim Jordan. • • • ROSENSTEIN WAS CALLED TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Fox News reported it : "Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein -- in President Donald Trump's crosshairs -- was summoned to the White House for a meeting with the President on Thursday, amid recent calls from some of Trump’s supporters for his ouster over his role in the expanding Russia investigation. Rosenstein, who is Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ deputy and who was appointed by Trump [a careerist Trump appointed to the Deputy position], was spotted leaving the West Wing on Thursday afternoon, though a White House official played down the meeting's significance : “Rod Rosenstein met with the president at the White House regarding routine department business.” But, the meeting, says Fox News, seemed to have been arranged quickly. Rosenstein had been scheduled to introduce Sessions during an afternoon event at the Justice Department. But the emcee of that event announced that Rosenstein had been “called away on another matter.” Justice Department officials said Rosenstein was at the White House for about an hour. He was accompanied by FBI officials and discussed document production to Congress, they said. Rosenstein also met with White House Counsel Don McGahn. Fox News reported that the meeting "comes at a sensitive time for Rosenstein. Trump, outraged over the FBI’s raid of personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s office this week, has been publicly venting his frustration with Rosenstein, Sessions and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. 'Mueller is most conflicted of all (except Rosenstein who signed FISA & Comey letter),' the President tweeted Wednesday." • It is very interesting that Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who had strongly ctiricized the FBI-DOJ-Mueller probe on Trump, was at the White House on Tuesday for a briefing with staff and was invited by President Trump to have a private dinner with him. Dershowitz and attorney Joe diGenova appeared on 'Hannity' and former fedral prosecutor DiGenova told Hannity that Sessions has a duty to fire Rosenstein : "Rod Rosenstein is so incompetent, compromised and conflicted that he can no longer serve as the deputy attorney general." • But despite pressure to fire Rosenstein, President Trump on Thursday tweeted that he agrees with his legal team in cooperating with Mueller’s probe : “I have agreed with the historically cooperative, disciplined approach that we have engaged in with Robert Mueller (Unlike the Clintons!).” • Other supporters -- including former advisor Steve Bannon -- have publicly encouraged Trump to stop cooperating with Mueller’s requests. Bannon told the Wasington Post "the President wasn’t fully briefed by his lawyers on the implications” of not invoking executive privilege. Bannon said : “It was a strategic mistake to turn over everything without due process, and executive privilege should be exerted immediately and retroactively.” • Earlier Thursday, President Trump denied seeking to shut down Mueller’s Russia probe, saying he would have fired the special counsel months ago if he'd wanted him gone : “If I wanted to fire Robert Mueller in December, as reported by the Failing New York Times, I would have fired him. Just more Fake News from a biased newspaper!” • • • WANTED : COMPETENT LEGAL ADVICE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP. One thing is certain -- President Trump needs the advice of laywers like Alan Dershowitz and Professor Jonathan Turley, both of whom have experience that is recognized as superior in the legal and constitutional complexities of the law that governs the interaction of a US President with his exectuive departments, the other branches of government, and the legal system. • On April 4, Professor Turley wrote an opinion piece for TheHill that begins with these words : "In terminal medical cases, doctors often deal with patients who move through 'stages' that begin with denial. These so-called Kübler-Ross stages can be a long road toward acceptance. A weird form of Kübler-Ross seems to have taken hold of the media. Rather than refusing to accept indicators of impending death, many journalists and analysts seem incapable of accepting signs that the Trump presidency could survive. That painful process was more evident Tuesday night when the Washington Post reported that special counsel Robert Mueller told the White House last month that Trump was not considered a 'target' but only a 'subject' of the investigation. After a year of being assured that 'bombshell' developments and 'smoking gun' evidence was sealing the criminal case against Trump, the dissonance was too great for many who refuse to accept the obvious meaning of this disclosure. The US Attorney’s manual defines a 'subject' as a “person whose conduct is within the scope of the grand jury's investigation.' It is a designation that can change but it is also a meaningful description of the current status of an individual. Mueller at this time apparently does not believe Trump meets the definition of a target or a 'person as to whom the prosecutor or the grand jury has substantial evidence linking him or her to the commission of a crime and who, in the judgment of the prosecutor, is a putative defendant.' " Turley makes this salient point : "That would have been less notable when Mueller was appointed in 2017 than it is now, after more than a year, dozens of criminal counts, hundreds of thousands of documents, and a bevy of cooperating witnesses. That Mueller does not believe there is 'substantial evidence linking [Trump] to the commission of a crime' would seem to merit some, albeit grudging, recognition. However, there has been a disturbing lack of objectivity in the coverage of this investigation from the start. Throughout it, some of us have cautioned that the criminal case against Trump was far weaker than media suggested. Fired FBI Director James Comey himself told Congress that Trump was not a target of his investigation. Indeed, Trump was reportedly upset with Comey largely because Comey would not say that publicly." Professor Turley goes on to state : "When Trump fired Comey, I supported the call for a special counsel, and I still support Mueller in completing his investigation. However, the case of criminal conduct by Trump has not materially improved over the last year. Last October, Mueller brought the first indictments against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Richard Gates. Notably, none of the indictments were linked to the campaign, let alone Trump. When that obvious point was raised, we were told that it meant nothing and Mueller was likely holding back the really damaging indictments while pressuring Trump aides. Commentators continue to announce 'bombshell' disclosures against Trump on a daily basis, with experts alleging clear cases for treason to obstruction to witness tampering and other crimes." • Turley then cites the criminal charges and plea agreement of General Michael Flynn : "Then, in November, came the disclosure of plea agreements with former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn and former campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos. However, these pleas were for making individual false statements to federal investigators. Neither the charges nor the narratives in the filings tied Trump or his campaign to any criminal act. Later indictments involving lawyer Alex van der Zwaan and internet operator Richard Pinedo involved a false statement and a single count of identity fraud, again unrelated to Trump or his campaign. Nevertheless, commentators insisted Mueller was just laying the groundwork for his major filing." Turley reminds us about the 13 Russians : "In February, Mueller handed down indictments of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian organizations for election-related crimes, from hacking to identity fraud. Not only did these charges not implicate Trump or his campaign, but the filing expressly stated that no one in the Trump campaign knowingly engaged Russians in these efforts." Professor Turley explained : "True, a 'subject' can become a 'target' and a 'target' can then become a 'defendant,' but so can a 'witness.' Clearly, Trump is a subject since he was the subject of the election itself and directly involved in the underlying matters under investigation. What is new is that Mueller confirmed Trump’s status has not changed." Turley then addressed the CNN rampage against Trump : "CNN analyst John Dean declared that an assurance Trump is not a target 'does not mean a whole lot.' Dean’s rationale was that a President 'cannot be indicted,' so Mueller would never have listed him as a target, regardless of the evidence. First and foremost, some of us believe a President can be indicted in office. While there is disagreement, including within the Justice Department and past independent counsels, the Supreme Court has never accepted such immunity from indictment. More important, even if true, such immunity would not mean Mueller would declare Trump is not a target. Rather, Trump would remain a target as an unindicted co-conspirator or simply an unindicted person pending impeachment. Once impeached, he still could be indicted. Thus, it would be both illogical and unethical for Mueller to say Trump is not a target when he was pursuing possible charges, either as an unindicted co-conspirator or a post-impeachment defendant. CNN analyst Philip Mudd was not satisfied with the 'soft' depictions of the Mueller disclosure and declared that it was devastating news that Mueller was now investigating Trump and that, if Trump were declared a subject, 'I would wet my pants.' CNN analyst Ryan Lizza went even further, suggesting that this was all a sham and Mueller is playing 'chess to get the President into an interview.' Of course, such a bait-and-switch would be unethical in making false representations to the President’s counsel if Trump is already considered a target. This continued refusal to acknowledge positive developments for Trump is a disturbing pathology. Just because Trump is a subject of investigation does not mean he cannot become a target. Moreover, Mueller as expected has indicated he will prepare a report on his investigation. This still is a positive development for Trump. It shows that Trump’s status has not materially changed but neither has the status of much of the coverage. Many media commentators clearly are stuck on denial and are a long way from acceptance in dealing with the legal status of Donald Trump." • • • DEAR READERS, President Trump needs to have the daily and ongoing continuum of availability and advice of lawyers like Professors Dershowitz and Turley -- who are not corporate or real estate legal experts, but legal experts in the inner workings of constitutional law and its application to the Office of the President. Without such advice, President Trump is in a boxing ring with both hands tied behind his back. Only heavyweight constitutional laywers with experience in the ring can provide the cohesive legal strategy and advice that will end this nightmare that President Trump and America now find themselves in.