Uranium Investigation, Putin's Probable Trump Whispers, and Progressive Panic in the Washington Swamp

TREASON? STUPIDITY? UNFIT FOR OFFICE? The Democrats and their propagandist media had better be careful. Those words apply to President Obama and his presidency, not to President Trump. • • • THE TRUMP OFFENSIVE TEAM IS AT WORK. The best defense is ALWAYS a good offense. President Trump is proving that today. We will get to the latest on the Helsinki ProgPanic in a second, but let's consider this first. On Wednesday afternoon; CNBC announced the breaking news that : "the Trump administration opens investigation into uranium imports....The US Commerce Department is opening an investigation into uranium exports that could lead to new tariffs. Commerce is using a 1962 law that allows the President to tax imports if the shipments are deemed a threat to national security. Just 7% of the uranium purchased by nuclear power plants last year was produced by the United States. • The Commerce Department, headed by Secretary Wilbur Ross, is taking action after two American uranium producers, Energy Fuels and Ur-Energy, petitioned the Department to investigate whether the dominance of imports in the US uranium market raises national security concerns. Ross issued a statement saying : "Our production of uranium necessary for military and electric power has dropped from 49% of our consumption to 5%. The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security will conduct a thorough, fair, and transparent review to determine whether uranium imports threaten to impair the national security.” • CNBC says that : "Tariffs on uranium would potentially raise prices for nuclear power plants at a time when many are struggling to turn a profit. The problem is particularly acute in the parts of the country with unregulated power markets, where they face tough competition from cheap natural gas and renewable energy." BUT, uranium is also used by the military to power the Navy's fleet of nuclear submarines. It is also used in armor plating and armor-piercing projectiles. Commerce said its investigation will examine the entire uranium sector, including mining, enrichment, defense and uses by industry. The department consulted with industry stakeholders, members of Congress and the departments of Defense and Energy prior to launching the probe. • CNBC reports that : "Energy Fuels and Ur-Energy submitted their request to Commerce in January, arguing that imports of subsidized uranium from state-owned companies threatens to undermine national security. The companies' statement read : "Despite uranium’s critical role in supporting clean electricity and national defense, imports of cheap, foreign state-subsidized uranium have swelled in recent years to the point that domestic suppliers currently provide less than 5% of our nation’s demand." The companies recommend setting a quota that would limit uranium imports and assure US producers provide about 25% of the nation's supply....Last year, US uranium concentrate production fell to its lowest level since 2004. The nation produced 2.44 million pounds, down from 43.7 million pounds in 1980, when output peaked, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Only 7% of the uranium delivered to US nuclear power plants last year was produced in the United States. Nuclear power generated 20% of the nation's energy in 2017." • AND, who shipped the most uranium into the US beginning in 2016? Canada, Kazakhstan, Australia and Russia, according to EIA. Do we hear Hillary's footsteps?? YES, we do. The US supply of nuclear fuel has grabbed headlines and caused partisan political fights in recent years, in the scam, reported by the New York Times, that led to the Russian atomic energy agency Rosatom's purchase of Canada's Uranium One, which controls about 20% of US uranium production capacity. The deal was the subject of a New York Times investigation that detailed financial links between Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation. It also featured prominently in "Clinton Cash," a book funded by the conservative Government Accountability Institute. It was, according to the NYT, put together by Bill and Hillary with their Canadian Foundation donor, who went with Bill to Kazakhstan to seal the deal. Bill received $400,000 for a speech in Russia soon after the deal was made, and the Clinton Foundation got hefty donations from the Canadian. At the time the deal was made, Hillary was Secretary of State and sat on the committee of several federal agencies that had to approve the transaction. • The ProgDems will have to get up a lot earlier to outfox Donald Trump. • • • NOW, ABOUT THAT HELSINKI PROGPANIC. On Tuesday morning, President Trump was tweeting, again taking aim at the “Fake News” media for its coverage of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday in Helsinki. President Trump tweeted : “While I had a great meeting with NATO, raising vast amounts of money, I had an even better meeting with Vladimir Putin of Russia. Sadly, it is not being reported that way - the Fake News is going Crazy!" The President then thanked Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, for his support of the summit. • But, in Washington, the ProgDems were in full panic mode. They must have thought that having Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein deliver the latest set of useless Mueller Russian indictments late Friday afternoon, just before the President's meeting with Putin, would derail the summit. It didn't. So, after the summit, they launched a ProgPanic the likes of which we have not seen before. What were they panicked about? First, they had fed Rosenstein to the lions, so to speak. His refusal to follow the ordinary diplomatic courtesy -- even for a foe like Russia -- before a diplomatic encounter so as not to stir up antagonistic repercussions, fell flat and leaves Rosenstein with an even angrier set of House committees that are already reportedly close to tabling inpeachment articles against him. • And, so the ProgPanic moved on to its staunchest supporters, the US intelligence community. Did they really expect President Trump to fall all over himself with praise for the intelligence community. He has been illegally surveilled, watched as his campaign team members were indicted for doing their jobs, and had both former and current FBI and DOJ intel groups stonewall rather than round up and charge those in their number who are Deep Staters determined to destroy through illegal means the President they are charged to protect. That they got so much as a favorable mention from the President is far more than they deserve. • Final ProgPanic -- call in the big guns from the Obama FBI and CIA. Both agencies colluded to endorse the Steele Dossier as legitimate intelligence to support obtaining a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign in order to destroy Trump. So, James Comey, that upright former director of the FBI who tried to bring down the President by colluding to let Hillary go free and then illegally sending classified documents to a law professor friend for release to the New York Times, and John Brennan, the convert to Islam with reported ties to the Moslem Brotherhood who nevertheless was Obama's CIA director, went public. Brennan tweeted that Trump's press conference performance in Helsinki "rises to & exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you?" And, Comey tweeted on Monday : "This was the day an American President stood on foreign soil next to a murderous lying thug and refused to back his own country." • Nothing has worked. Trump is still standing. • • • WHY THE PROGPANIC? Many conservative analysts think the Progressive and Democrat panic stems from what Putin knows -- ABOUT THEM. • American Thinker's Silvio Canto, Jr. says President Trump's critics know that President Obama did nothing about the Russian threat, and that he mocked Governor Romney in 2012 for calling out Russia as America's biggest global threat. Where was the Obama administration? Out to lunch -- UNTIL Hillary Clinton lost the election. That was the moment when the Democrats needed an explanation for her defeat. • Gatewaypundit.com's Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft wrote that before the Turmp-Putin summit "the Democrats, Deep State Mueller and Rosenstein and their MSM" were doing all they could to prevent President Trump from meeting with Russian President Putin. Hoft asks : "Why are they so persistent in stopping the President of the US from meeting with Putin? You would think this was a good thing, right?" But, the Deep State is going crazy. CNN reported : “President Trump should cancel his meeting with Vladimir Putin until Russia takes demonstrable and transparent steps to prove that they won’t interfere in future elections. Glad-handing with Vladimir Putin on the heels of these indictments would be an insult to our democracy,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement. The top Democrat in the House, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, tweeted : “@realDonaldTrump must immediately cancel his meeting with Putin.” • Rosenstein came out Friday with a quickly scheduled presser to announce the indictment of another 12 Russians supposedly who interfered in the 2016 election. The case however, like the prior indictments against Russians, appears weak at best. Numerous observations already over the weekend show the indictments are suspect. Hoft asks : "So why are the Democrats, the Deep State and the MSM so petrified of President Trump meeting with Putin? The answer is because they are deathly afraid of not what Putin might tell Trump but what evidence Putin might have that would indict their leaders in prior criminal actions." • And, that is what happened. During Monday's press conference with President Trump, Russian President Putin dropped a bomb on the Deep State members in the intelligence community, the Obama administration and the Clintons. Putin offered to permit officials in the US, including Mueller, to go to Russia to assist in their investigation of the supposed Trump-Russia collusion story. Then, Putin dropped his bomb by saying this would require reciprocity -- the US could help Russia in one of their investigations : "For instance, we can bring up Mr. Browder, in this particular case. Business associates of Mr. Browder have earned over $1.5 billion in Russia and never paid any taxes neither in Russia or the United States and yet the money escaped the country. They were transferred to the United States. They sent [a] huge amount of money, $400,000,000, as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary Clinton. Well that’s their personal case. It might have been legal, the contribution itself but the way the money was earned was illegal. So we have solid reason to believe that some [US] intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions. So we have an interest in questioning them." • THAT is PANIC. ProgPanic. It is why every Democrats, MSM Fake journalist and Deep Stater who are Obama gang members came out of hiding and screamed with fear over what Trump may have learned from Putin, so much so that they claimed President Trump should be impeached. That is why John Brennan is calling for Trump's impeachment. That is why Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Democrat Congress members, and #NeverTrumpers like Speaker Paul Ryan, all condemned the President. Their complaints about President Trump caving to Putin are Fake. They are concerned for their futures -- in or out of prison, is the issue for them. The Deep State and the Democrats are terrified of what Putin may have provided Trump about Democrat operatives 'colluding" wiht Russians in 2016. They all know that they are the ones who colluded with Russia and they are vulnerable as a result. They fear their days are now numbered. President Trump knows things that he is not yet talking aobut and the Deep State is in a panic never seen before. A ProgPanic. • • • BEN CARSON'S INDICTMENT ANNOUNCEMENT. We can discount the Ben Carson News announcement on Wednesday that President Trump "gave the go-ahead to announce new Russian election-hacking indictments before his meeting with Vladimir Putin rather than after, in the hopes it would strengthen his hand in the talks, according to accounts from people familiar with the decision." Carson News says : "Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein went to Trump last week and offered him the choice : before or after the Putin summit on Monday in Helsinki? Trump chose before, ultimately putting the issue into the spotlight just 72 hours before the high-stakes meeting, the sources said." • Why is hte news to be discounted?? Because it was a trap for President Trump. If he said indict before the summit, he would run the risk of Putin backing out. If he said wait until after the summit, the Deep State would wait until Tuesday morning afterthe summit and announce that Trump had damaging information on Putin and Russia about "collusion" that he refused to allow to be released before the summit. Catch-22. Trump chose the less damaging timing. • And, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein unveiled the indictments at a splashy press conference on Friday before the summit. Rosenstein announced : “The indictment charges twelve Russian nationals for committing federal crimes that were intended to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. All twelve defendants are members of the GRU, a Russian Federation intelligence agency within the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian military. These GRU officers, in their official capacities, engaged in a sustained effort to hack into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee, and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, and released that information on the internet under the names “DCLeaks” and “Guccifer 2.0” and through another entity.” NOTE the lack fo any statement about the Trump team "colluding" with the hackers. • • • WHO REALLY HACKED THE DNC?? Bill Bonner wrote on Tuesday that the Deep State : "may turn out to be the “who” in this 'who-dunnit.'.... if Donald J. Trump really was a threat to any of them, the insiders had a better motive than the Russians for wanting to slow him down. Besides, US intelligence agencies had much more money to work with...much more talent to draw on...and many more opportunities to get up to mischief. That’s why some analysts believe that the mischief at the heart of the Russiagate story was more likely gotten up to by US spooks rather than foreign ones." Bonner says that : "Two retired NSA and CIA analysts, William Binney and Ray McGovern, with a combined 63 years of experience, came forward over the weekend and made an astounding charge. They said the hack -- made by a program called “Guccifer” -- was almost certainly an inside job, carried out by America’s own intelligence professionals and made to look like a Russian job. Want to know where Guccifer came from? 'Ask the FBI,' proposed the two intelligence experts." • The real question is who will track this allegation down and bring any miscreant FBI operatives to justice? We can no longer trust either the FBI or the DOJ. Who today speaks for America?? Nobody except Donald Trump and some of his senior advisors. And a few House members -- led by Devin Nunes. • • • TRUST AND TREASON. American Thinker's Thomas Lifson places the trust where it belongs -- with President Trump. Lifson wrote on Wednesday : "I think that another factor may also be present in Trump's mind : a desire to provoke, or troll, his critics in order to get them to use the t-word : treason. Now, a normal politician avoids giving critics any opportunity for such accusations, but Trump is not a normal politician, I think we can all agree. He understands that madness now grips his most adamant political foes, and he also understands the wisdom of the ancient adage as stated by Longfellow, 'Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.' Trump knows with certainty that he did not collude with Russia to win the election. But he is also well aware of the kind of footsie that the most recent nominee of the Democrats, Hillary Clinton, played with the Kremlin in approving the sale of a quarter of our uranium reserves to a Russian entity, in return for huge, nine-figure donations to the Clinton Foundation and a half-million-dollar speech for her husband. If accusations of 'treason' are in the air, then maybe Democrats have more to worry about with regard to Russia than does Trump. And don't forget the 2012 attempt by then-president Barack Obama to covertly promise Putin's #2, Medvedev, "After my election, I'll have more flexibility" that was caught by a hot microphone. To my ears, this is actual "collusion" -- an attempt to affect the election by keeping information from the voting public, in cahoots with the Russians. If I were Obama, I would not want 'treason' defined down to include words spoken at a summit." • When President Trump says : “I’d rather take a political risk in search of peace than risk peace in the name of politics,” it makes sense to conservative Americans. Bill Bonner says : "But Deep State warmongers can’t stand peace; it endangers their supply lines. In the absence of a real enemy, huge wealth transfers to the Warfare and Police States make no sense. Reagan got bamboozled into big 'defense' increases because he feared communism. The Warfare State hawks and intelligence insiders lit up his imagination with images of Soviet hordes streaming across Europe…infesting Latin America… and rolling tanks towards Singapore. We found out a few years later that it was all nonsense. The Soviet Union could not even hold itself together, let alone attack the world’s number one military power. Besides, communism is a self-correcting malady." • American Thinker's Steve McCann wrote on Tuesday : "There is no question that Russia and China are this nation's primary geopolitical foes. While the current Russian Federation is not as powerful as its predecessor, the Soviet Union, it is, nonetheless, a formidable adversary, particularly with Putin at the helm. There is little doubt that the Russians spied on the United States and attempted to sow the seeds of discontent during the 2016 election. Almost as soon as the old Soviet Union was born in the 1920s, it, as national policy, cast a wide net of espionage and destabilization throughout Europe and America. America responded slowly and did not fully reciprocate with its own espionage activities until after World War II and the dawning of the Cold War. This chess match is now approaching its 90th anniversary. However, it was the Obama cabal, including the hierarchy of the intelligence services, together with the now left-wing Democratic Party in alliance with the mainstream media that changed the understanding and rules of the game. In a planned and well executed strategy highlighted by shouting from the rooftops about fictitious collusion with Russia by the Trump campaign, the old rules were discarded as the special counsel, Robert Mueller, has been forced, in order to justify his existence, to criminally indict numerous Russian nationals who will never stand trial in the United States. This derisible tactic is not only unprecedented in the international spy and destabilization game, but foolish beyond measure, as similar retaliation for American spying is now on the table. Listening to the reaction of the rabble to Trump's performance at the Helsinki press conference, one would assume that the only acceptable course for him to take was to verbally punch Putin in the nose. Why are those so eager to see Trump humiliated and undermined so willing to denigrate and provoke this nation's historical rival? What purpose would it have served to gratuitously insult Putin in front of the entire world? Is destroying Trump of such paramount importance that the potential of Russian retaliation could escalate into further reprisals on both sides leading to a possible lethal conflict as Putin is first and foremost a nationalist and not the most stable of international leaders?....14 months of Mueller's investigations has revealed no criminal activity by the Trump campaign despite desperately seeking collusion under every rock. Unlike so many others, I do not want any President of the United States to gratuitously and publicly insult an adversary, be it Russia or China, but instead to hammer out difficult issues in private. Over the history of mankind, too many conflicts and resultant casualties have occurred because of the egocentricity of the leaders over minor issues. Regardless of the hysteria, the Russian attempt to sow chaos during the 2016 election season is a minor issue, as the attempt was not only largely unsuccessful, but amateurishly executed. Thank you, Donald Trump, for not succumbing to the rabble and instead leaving the door open for candid communication with Russia when and if a major crisis rears its ugly head." • • • WHO STANDS WITH TRUMP? On Wednesday, President Trump said Russia does not pose a threat to the United States, contradicting his director of national intelligence on a political controversy that began at his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump, besieged with criticism over his handling of Putin at the summit, for a second day ws doing damage control, telling reporters : “There has never been a President s tough on Russia has I have been. I think President Putin knows that better than anybody, certainly a lot better than the media. He understands it, and he's not happy about it.” Seconds later, Trump said “no” when asked if Russia still poses a threat to the US." The president said his administration is “doing very well” in countering Russia, citing US sanctions on Moscow and the expulsion of Russian nationals accused of being spies. • Several GOP lawmakers and Trump allies have indicated the President's explanations have satisfied their concerns, but a bipartisan group of Senators are readying legislation that would place new sanctions on Moscow if it interferes in the 2018 midterm elections. Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said he is calling Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify before his panel next week to discuss Trump's meeting with Putin. • "While the weak sisters in Trump's team apparently succeeded in assuaging their own fears by having the President step back on his neutral stand in Helsinki on who interfered in the 2016 election, it was sad to watch. And, we have a right to know when Dan Coats got clearance to speak out over the President. I thought he was on Trump's team. • Patricia McCarthy wrote for American Thinker on Wednesday : "The minute the presser was over, there was a near-global political disintegration among our Democrats, most of the RINOs in Congress (Ryan, Flake, Corker, Graham) and the media. There were only a few voices of reason : Roger L. Simon, Rand Paul, among the few. As for the rest of the herd, one would have thought Trump handed Putin the keys to the White House. He did nothing of the kind. Trump sat down with the man and began a conversation. Where it will go, no one yet knows. Trump knows, as do most people interested in such things, that Russia has spied on the US for at least a hundred years. Pick up an Eric Ambler novel. That the Democrats are suddenly upset by this is a joke. Until November 9, 2016, they loved Russia and humiliated anyone who did not see the former Soviet Union as a model society....Obama knew the Russians were cyber-intruding on numerous facets of our infrastructure and did nothing. He did not care one bit. When he said publicly that he'd told Putin to "cut it out," none of our self-congratulatory, ideologically rigid media minded that one bit. For the media, Obama could do or say no wrong, no matter how much damage he did. As for calling out the Russians, Obama "knew" Hillary was going to win so it didn't matter what the Russians did. It didn't matter that millions of dollars of Russian money flowed into the Clinton campaign coffers and to what has been the largest money-laundering operation in US history, the Clinton Foundation. Putin mentioned a certain $400m of it. Now we know that Obama ordered Susan Rice to shut down the investigation into Russian meddling during the 2016 campaign. None of that mattered to Obama or to the media. They don't publicize bad news for their side; their version of the news trumps the country's well-being....the media and political class are pathetic. They know very well that Trump has been harder on Russia than Clinton, Bush or Obama. They just see an opportunity to do harm. All those pointy-headed, self-appointed foreign policy gurus cannot abide the fact that Trump is getting things right without their advice and counsel. That is the root of their unscrupulous and ridiculous gang-up on the President. They are gob-smacked that they are thoroughly unnecessary....For reasons no one can discern, these not-journalists see themselves as the one and only conduit of information between Trump, Putin and 'the people.' They seem to have forgotten that we can all read, think and come to conclusions on our own. Did we need one of them to ask Putin if he had compromising material on Trump? It was not a serious question, but one meant only to embarrass the President. Trump by now, however, is beyond being embarrassed by idiot pseudo-reporters. The man from the AP humiliated only himself. Trump could have read from an Obama transcript, words they had all glorified in the past, and the media would have reacted exactly the same way because the words came out of Trump's mouth." • • • DEAR READERS, the United States cannot go on like this for much longer. American citizens' patience is wearing thin. We are in a maelstrom created and fed by a seditious gang of Progressive socialists. President Trump is valiant in his defense of the Republic. He towers over his opponents in intelligence, tactics and love of America. But, he needs somebody to plan the battle -- to stand up to the mob and prepare the strategy for the President so that he can devote more time to his day job -- leading America and the world. Where is that person -- Pence? Kelly? Bolton? I don't think so. They are not made of the right stuff for a civil war of words and political tactics. Or, if VP Pence is, he has not shown it as yet. Who? Only Devin Nunes comes ot mind quickly, but he is leading the congressional battle and cannot be spared. It is not so much about Russia -- Trump will never be fooled by Putin. We need a battlefield warrior who can take the Swamp elite by its throat and choke it into submission. We need, then, an Attorney General who will follow through and indict the cabal leaders. • Donald Trump has exceeded our greatest expectations so far. We must support him now more than ever. We are not disappointed in his Helsinki performance. We are, rather, appalled by the rabid madness of the insider elites who live in the Swamp. Who will step forward to help our President right the ship of the Republic once and for all?