Russia Dossier/MI6/Mueller and Confrontation at the US-Mexico Border -- How to Trash Trump and Save Skin

TODAY, WE HAVE TWO VERY DIFFERENT STORIES BUT WITH ONE THEME. Can there be any common thread between the Russia Dossier / MI6 / Mueller Report and the confrontation on the US-Mexican border? Let's look at the Russia Dossier / Mueller story first. • • • BRITISH INTELLIGENCE SEEKS TO PREVENT RELEASE OF RUSSIA MEDDLING DOCUMENTS. Zero Hedge reported on Sunday that : "The UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, otherwise known as MI6, has been scrambling to prevent President Trump from publishing classified materials linked to the Russian election meddling investigation, according to The Telegraph, stating that any disclosure would 'undermine intelligence gathering if he releases pages of an FBI application to wiretap one of his former campaign advisers.' Trump’s allies, however, are fighting back -- demanding transparency and suggesting that the UK wouldn’t want the documents withheld unless it had something to hide." • The Telegraph reported that it has talked to more than a dozen UK and US officials, including in American intelligence, who have revealed details about the row. "British spy chiefs have 'genuine concern' about sources being exposed if classified parts of the wiretap request were made public," figures familiar with discussions told the Telegraph. "It boils down to 'the exposure of people," said one US intelligence official, adding, "We don’t want to reveal sources and methods." US intelligence shares the UK's concerns, both intel communities fearing that the proposed release would set a dangerous "precedent" which could make people less likely to share information, knowing that it could one day become public. The Telegraph added that the UK’s dispute with the Trump administration is so politically sensitive that staff within the British Embassy in Washington have been barred from discussing it with journalists. Theresa May has also “been kept at arms-length and is understood to have not raised the issue directly with the US President.” • In September, Zero Hedge reported that the British government “expressed grave concerns” over the material in question after President Trump issued an order to the DOJ to release a group of materials, “immediately” and “without redaction.” Trump rescinded his order back days later after the UK begged him not to release them. The Telegraph noted : “Mr Trump wants to declassify 21 pages from one of the applications. He announced the move in September, then backtracked, then this month said he was 'very seriously' considering it again. Both Britain and Australia are understood to be opposing the move. Memos detailing alleged ties between Mr Trump and Russia compiled by Christopher Steele, a former MI6 officer, were cited in the application, which could explain some of the British concern.” • President Trump tweeted in September : "I met with the DOJ concerning the declassification of various UNREDACTED documents. They agreed to release them but stated that so doing may have a perceived negative impact on the Russia probe. Also, key Allies’ called to ask not to release. Therefore, the Inspector General....has been asked to review these documents on an expedited basis. I believe he will move quickly on this (and hopefully other things which he is looking at). In the end I can always declassify if it proves necessary. Speed is very important to me -- and everyone!" • Also in September, the New York Times reported that the UK was concerned about material which “includes direct references to conversations between American law enforcement officials and Christopher Steele,” the former MI6 agent who compiled the infamous “Steele Dossier.” The UK’s objection, according to former US and British officials, was over revealing Steele’s identity in an official document, “regardless of whether he had been named in press reports.” But, as Zero Hedge noted in September : "Steele’s name appeared in the Nunes Memo -- the House Intelligence Committee’s majority opinion in the Trump-Russia case. Steele also had extensive contacts with DOJ official Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie, who -- along with Steele -- was paid by opposition research firm Fusion GPS in the anti-Trump campaign. Trump called for the declassification of FBI notes of interviews with Ohr, which would ostensibly reveal more about his relationship with Steele. Ohr was demoted twice within the Department of Justice for lying about his contacts with Fusion GPS." • Zero Hedge suggests that the British are also concerned since much of the espionage performed on the Trump campaign was conducted on UK soil throughout 2016, including the facts that (1) Trump aid George Papadopoulos was lured to London in March, 2016, where Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud fed him the rumor that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton; (2) later at a London bar, Papadopoulos would drunkenly pass the rumor on to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer (who the later-fired FBI agent Strzok flew to London to meet with); and, (3) CIA / FBI “informant” (i.e., spy) Stefan Halper met with both Carter Page and Papadopoulos in London. • The Daily Caller reported : "Halper, a veteran of four Republican administrations, reached out to Trump aide George Papadopoulos in September 2016 with an offer to fly to London to write an academic paper on energy exploration in the Mediterranean Sea. Papadopoulos accepted a flight to London and a $3,000 honorarium. He claims that during a meeting in London, Halper asked him whether he knew anything about Russian hacking of Democrats’ emails. Papadopoulos had other contacts on British soil that he now believes were part of a government-sanctioned surveillance operation." • In total, Halper received over $1 million from the Obama Pentagon for “research,” over $400,000 of which was granted before and during the 2016 election season. Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 days in prison (starting Monday when he reports to prison) for lying about his conversations with the shadowy Maltese professor Mifsud, a self-professed member of the Clinton Foundation. But, Papadopoulos has publicly claimed he was targeted by UK spies. Trump’s Washington allies have suggested that the facts laid out mean that the still ongoing Russia investigation was invalid from the start. • Thus, it’s understandable that the UK would prefer to hide their involvement in the “witch hunt” of President Trump by convincing the US intelligence community to suppress the release of any "Russia" Dossier" documents. If the British had knowledge of the operation, it will bolster claims that Britain directly meddled in the 2016 US election by assisting what appears to have been a set-up from the start -- none of the claims asserted by former MI6 agent Steele have been proven true. The Daily Caller also reported : "Steele, a former MI6 agent, is the author of the infamous and unverified anti-Trump Dossier....He shared results of his investigation into Trump’s links to Russia with the FBI beginning in early July 2016. The FBI relied heavily on the unverified Steele Dossier to fill out applications for four FISA warrants against Page. Page has denied the Dossier’s claims, which include that he was the Trump campaign’s back channel to the Kremlin." • • • DERSHOWITZ ON THE UPCOMING MUELLER REPORT. Let's consider this MI6 history in light of the apparently imminent release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the "collusion" of the Trump campaign with the Russians in order to win the 2016 election. What caught my eye on Sunday was a Newsmax article on an interview Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz gave to ABC's George Stephanopoulos, in which Dershowitz said special counsel Robert Mueller's eventual report on election meddling is "going to be politically very devastating' even if it will not get President Donald Trump on criminal charges. Dershowitz told ABC : "I think the report is going to be devastating to the President, and I know that the President's team is already working on a response to the report." Dershowitz stated that "IF" the Attorney General ultimately releases Mueller's findings, it will be with President Trump's response, side by side for the public to draw their own conclusions : "The critical questions are largely political. When I say devastating, I mean it's going to paint a picture that's going to be politically very devastating. I still don't think it's going to make a criminal case because collusion is not criminal." Dershowitz told Stephanopoulos that pinning on President Trump a charge of conspiracy to cooperate with an attempt to defraud the United States is "too much of a stretch....They're going to need more than that. What I think they're going to do, if Mueller's smart, is he's not going to take a chance on being rebutted. He's going to lay out 'just the facts, man'...leave it to Congress to decide whether that rises to the level of impeachable offense. I still think Trump's greatest vulnerabilities do not lie with Mueller, they lie in the Southern District of New York because Mueller's allegations have constitutional defenses. Whereas if there's any shenanigans having to do with business, they don't have constitutional defenses." • That is one of the most unexpected apparent about-faces I have ever read. Alan Dershowitz has defended President Trump for months, and he has had access to the White House during that time. We have to ask -- has he now decided to go after the President; does he know what's in the Mueller report; and, does he still have access to the White House? We cannot answer these questions, but it seems strange that Dershowitz would select the same time that the MI6 story is circulating to talk about the Mueller report. Will Mueller show facts that support the allegation that there were improper contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians during the campaign? Or, is Dershowitz surmising that whatever facts Mueller has must be negative for Trump at least in respect of his business, thus calling into play, as Dershowitz does, the Southern District of New York where all the cases of Trump associates have been referred for criminal proceedings -- cases totally unrelated to thier positions, if any, in the Trump campaign and totally unrelated to political contacts with Russians on behalf of Trump. • Early in the Newsmax artilce, Dershowitz is quoted as saying "Mueller's eventual report on election meddling is "going to be politically very devastating' EVEN IF IT WILL NOT GET President Donald Trump on criminal charges." [capitals for emphasis mine] • But later in the Newsmax report of the Stephanopoulos interview, Dershowitz says " I know that the President's team is already working on a response to the report." We have to believe that he is speaking truthfully. So, what are the President's lawyers working on? My guess would be that they are preparing to attack the entire Mueller probe as being procedurally out of order and constitutionally improper since Mueller never had either precise instruction about the scope of his assignment and was supervised by Rod Rosenstein, a Deputy Attorney General who, the President's lawyers would argue, hates President Trump and has worked to get rid of him from day one. Federal regulations in place since 1999 make clear that Mueller is not subject to day-to-day supervision from the acting attorney general or any other Justice Department official, and that he is also equipped with the power and independent authority equal to that of a US attorney. But, if the President's lawyers can prove either of these elements -- lack of any scope in Mueller's initial assignment jurisdiction and/or supervision by a clearly biased DAG Rosenstein -- it would very likely be seen as having poisoned any "fruit" of the Mueller probe and make even business-related improprieties improper discoveries. • This idea makes the Dershowitz about-face more understandable. He is simply doing what the British are doing -- trying to save skin -- the British, their MI6 intelligence agency's skin, and Dershowitz, his own skin by saying indirectly, 'I was right about the constitutional presidential issues, but I couldn't know that Mueller would be permitted to dig into the President's business dealings.' • • • CAN ACTING AG WHITAKER CONTROL MUELLER? TheHill reported on Friday that : "Much of the focus on President Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker to temporarily replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been on the possibility of Whitaker removing Mueller, a move that would undoubtedly spark public outrage and trigger full-scale investigations by Democrats, who are poised to take control of the House in January. But federal regulations offer Whitaker, now acting attorney general, broad authority with respect to the special counsel that extends beyond the ability to remove Mueller, giving him the ability to curtail the probe in ways that would not necessarily become public knowledge until after the Russia investigation is over....Whitaker has the power to weigh in on any major steps in the probe, such as the issuance of new subpoenas and indictments. Should he remain at the helm of the Justice Department until the conclusion of the investigation, it will be up to Whitaker to decide which portions, if any, of Mueller’s final report are submitted to Congress or released to the public." • All of this said, there are absolutely no public indications that Whitaker will limit the probe. In a court filing last Monday, Mueller’s team signaled that their authorities remain intact following the leadership shuffle at the Justice Department. But, Democrats and other critics constantly warn that President Trump could be laying the groundwork to impede the investigation with Whitaker’s appointment. Last week, retiring Senator Jeff Flake, a #NeverTrumper, unsuccessfully tried to force a vote on legislation that would protect Mueller from being fired. However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has repeatedly said such a measure is not necessary because he does not believe Mueller is in danger of being removed. In addition, the Justice Department has declined to comment on whether Whitaker has taken any steps with respect to the special counsel investigation since his appointment. • Whitaker publicly criticized the investigation on several occasions before joining the Justice Department, arguing in an August 2017 CNN op-ed that the investigation into Trump was going “too far” and should be limited. But, in a recent interview with Fox News, President Trump said he was unfamiliar with Whitaker’s previous views on the Mueller probe before appointing him. He also indicated he would not intervene if Whitaker took action to pump the brakes on the investigation : “It’s going to be up to him. I think he’s very well aware politically. There was no collusion whatsoever, and the whole thing is a scam.” • According to the 1999 federal regulations, expansive as they are about a special counsel's freedom of action, Mueller is required to notify the acting attorney general of any “significant events” in the investigation, ranging from plans to pursue charges or subpoena witnesses to testify. So, Whitaker can request briefings on any investigative or prosecutorial steps and block actions that he deems to be inappropriate or unwarranted under department practices. According to TheHill : "Legal analysts say Whitaker, in theory, could prevent Mueller from subpoenaing Trump to testify before the grand jury, a prospect that is already subject to legal debate. On Tuesday, Trump submitted written responses to the special counsel’s questions on collusion but has not agreed to a sit-down interview sought by Mueller’s team. If negotiations with Trump’s lawyers on an interview falter...it is possible Mueller could try to subpoena the President to testify.” Whitaker's obligation to inform Congress of any move to stop certain actions by the special counsel is not required until after the investigation has concluded. In addition, Whitaker has control over the special counsel’s budget and staff, and in a 2017 CNN interview, Whitaker envisioned a scenario in which a Sessions replacement could reduce Mueller’s budget “so low that his investigations grinds to almost a halt.” AND, Mueller would need Whitaker’s approval to expand the investigation to probe matters beyond his original jurisdiction. • If the Mueller investigation is in the late fact-finding stages, as experts believe, the special counsel is required to submit a final confidential report to the attorney general. That report is expected to contain grand jury testimony and other sensitive information, increasing the odds that the government will keep at least some of it sealed. But Democrats in Congress have already said they will fight to make its contents public, which could create a confrontation with the Trump administration. In this final chapter over the Russia "collusion" probe, President Trump is more alone now that he has been since entering office because of the House shift to a Democrat majority in the mid-terms. But, the President now has an acting Attorney General who is free of the Session recusal stain and who has many powers to use vis-à-vis the Mueller probe. And, President Trump has Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Heavyweight allies. • Whitaker assumed oversight of the Mueller probe from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at what TheHill calls "a critical point in the investigation, as the special counsel reviews Trump’s written answers to questions about potential collusion between his campaign and Moscow in 2016 and mulls further steps in his scrutiny of longtime Trump ally Roger Stone." Whitaker may get the chance to take on Mueller sooner than anticipated because Newsmax reported on Monday that : "Conservative writer Jerome Corsi, an associate of Roger Stone, has been offered a plea deal in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia collusion, according to several news outlets, but he is swearing that he will not accept it. 'Corsi tells me he’s been offered plea deal on one count of perjury,' NBC News Senior Producer Anna Schecter tweeted Monday, quoting him as telling her 'They want me to say I willfully lied. I’m not going to agree that I lied. I did not. I will not lie to save my life. I’d rather sit in prison and rot for as long as these thugs want me to.' Corsi also told CNN Monday that he will not accept a plea deal, commenting during a telephone interview that 'They can put me in prison the rest of my life. I am not going to sign a lie.' He also said he does not know what will happen if he refuses the deal." What Mueller apparently offered to Corsi is the chance to plead guilty to one count of perjury. Corsi is under investigation for being a possible intermediary between WikiLeaks and Stone. CNN, citing Corsi's interview with One America News Network, said Corsi claimed that he had no knowledge of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, never spoke with him about former Hillary Clinton campaign director John Podesta's leaked emails and never communicated to anyone about them. The conservative One America, which interviewed Corsi for an exclusive on Monday, noted on Twitter that Corsi has said his issue is a faulty memory, not "willfully and knowingly lying," and that Corsi is calling Mueller's tactics "Gestapo" like. AND IMPORTANTLY -- One America also reported that Corsi is preparing to file a criminal complaint against Mueller's investigation with acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. THIS could be Whitaker's first entry into the "collusion" Swamp. • • • THE TIJUANA BORDER HEATS UP. The Daily Caller reported Friday that : "Officials in Tijuana have declared a humanitarian crisis in response to thousands of mostly Central American migrants who have arrived in recent weeks and overwhelmed temporary shelters in the Mexican border city. As of Thursday night, at least 5,000 recent arrivals were camped in Tijuana, which is serving as a staging ground for the migrants to apply for asylum in the US. City officials estimate as many as 1,200 migrants arrived from the nearby city of Mexicali in less than 24 hours between Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon, straining temporary shelters that were already operating at capacity. At least 2,000 more migrants are traveling in a second caravan currently moving north through the central Mexican states of Jalisco and Queretaro -- most are expected to end up in Tijuana in the coming weeks. In response to the influx, Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum declared an international humanitarian crisis and blasted the federal government for allowing the migrants to concentrate in the city. 'They have categorically omitted and not complied with their legal obligations,' Gastelum said Thursday at a news conference, according to the Arizona Republic. 'So we’re now asking them and international humanitarian aid groups to bring in and carry out humanitarian assistance.' ” • The Tijuana municipal government told the Daily caller that it's spending about $27,000 per day to house and provide care to the caravan migrants in the city. Gastelum, who has drawn criticism for his tough rhetoric about the caravan, warned that he would not authorize more spending as additional migrants arrive : “I will not compromise public services. I will not spend Tijuanans’ money, I will not bring Tijuana into debt now, in the same way we haven’t done so these past two years." Most of the caravan migrants are being sheltered in Tijuana’s Benito Juarez sports center, but officials say the center is already over capacity and cannot hold any more migrants while still maintaining even minimal safety and sanitary conditions. Tijuana officials say lack of coordination with the Mexican federal government has hindered the on-the-ground response to the caravan. • Fox News reported on Sunday that, as President Trump threatens to close the entire border : "US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it suspended northbound and southbound crossings for both pedestrians and vehicles at the San Ysidro port of entry at approximately 11:30 a.m. local time. It later tweeted that the pedestrian crossings had re-opened, a little more than four hours after the initial closure....CBP added that some demonstrators 'attempted to illegally enter the US through both the northbound and southbound vehicle lanes at the port of entry itself. Those persons [mostly men] were stopped and turned back to Mexico." • Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement that some migrants "attempted to breach legacy fence infrastructure along the border and sought to harm CBP personnel by throwing projectiles at them. Neilsen said : "As I have continually stated, DHS will not tolerate this type of lawlessness and will not hesitate to shut down ports of entry for security and public safety reasons. We will also seek to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who destroys federal property, endangers our frontline operators, or violates our nation’s sovereignty." • The Mexican Interior Ministry said Sunday afternoon it would immediately deport the migrants who tried to "violently" breach the border. The Mexican government described Sunday's events as "acts of provocation" that were "far from helpful" for the migrants' objectives. Earlier this month, President Trump said that troops stationed at the border would treat thrown rocks like "firearms." The President said : "We're not going to put up with that. They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. I told them to consider it a rifle. When they throw rocks, like they did at the Mexico military and police, I said, consider it a rifle." • Mexico's incoming government denied reports Saturday that it had struck a deal with the White House to keep asylum-seekers in the country while their claims move through US immigration courts. The prospective deal between the US and Mexico was seen as a way to dissuade thousands of Central American migrants from seeking asylum in the US, a lengthy process. The legal bar for claiming asylum is high and generally requires applicants to show a specific risk of persecution based on factors such as race, nationality, politics or religion. Fox News said : "Trump administration officials have characterized the vast majority of asylum claims as fraudulent or legally insufficient, and have taken steps to reduce the backlog of asylum claims that they say are often used by migrants to gain entry into the US and disappear into the country as their claims are adjudicated. • Future Mexico Interior Minister Olga Sanchez said in a statement : "There is no agreement of any sort between the incoming Mexican government and the U.S. government." BUT, just hours earlier, The Washington Post quoted her as saying that the incoming administration of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had agreed to allow migrants to stay in Mexico as a "short-term solution" while the US considered their applications for asylum. The Washington Post the Trump administration support from the Mexican president-elect's team had been dubbed "Remain in Mexico." The WP also quoted Sanchez as saying : "For now, we have agreed to this policy of Remain in Mexico." Sanchez did not explain in the statement why the Washington Post had quoted her as saying there had been an agreement. • Early Sunday, President Trump tweeted that it would be "very SMART" for Mexico to "stop the Caravans long before they get to our Southern Border" to avoid future logistics challenges at the border. Fox News said : "There were signs last week that the Mexican government has received that message. Mexican immigration agents on Wednesday detained almost all of the Central American migrants on a fourth caravan that recently entered Mexico seeking to reach the US, with Mexico's National Immigration Institute saying 213 migrants were detained and taken to a processing center. Those found to lack proper documents may face repatriation to their home countries." Another proposal, called "Safe Third," would have denied asylum claims on the grounds that asylum seekers had found haven in Mexico. President Enrique Pena Nieto offered thousands of Central Americans asylum on October 26 if they agreed to remain in southern Mexico. Approximately 3,000 migrants took Mexico up on the offer. But, Sanchez said Saturday that the next government does not plan for Mexico to become a "Safe Third" country. • And, in Tijuana, things were bound to heat up. The York Post reported on Sunday afternoon that : "US Customs and Border Protection closed a section of the southern border with Mexico on Sunday and fired tear gas at a group of migrants that tried to breach a fence separating the two countries. CNN reported that road and pedestrian bridge access at the San Ysidro port had been closed. This is the major artery connects San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico. Video footage from journalists on-site shows hundreds of migrants rushing toward the US border, and the Associated Press reported that US officials fired tear gas at the migrants as they attempted to break through the fence. • President Trump said on Saturday : “Migrants at the Southern Border will not be allowed into the United States until their claims are individually approved in court.” Trump administration officials have alleged widespread fraud, suggesting most asylum seekers disappear into the US after making their initial claims. The administration had also tried to insure that no one could apply for asylum if they crossed into the US illegally, but a northern California judge blocked the order. This led to President Trump's attack on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which will hear the case : “You cannot win if you’re us, a case in the Ninth Circuit, and I think it’s a disgrace when people file, every case gets filed in the Ninth Circuit. That’s not law. That’s not what this country stands for. Every case gets filed in the Ninth Circuit, we get beaten and then we end up having to go to the Supreme Court.” • • • THE RADICAL LEFT IS BEHIND THE CARAVANS. American Thinker's Monica Showalter wrote on Monday : "To hear the news report it, the migrant caravan is just a spontaneous uprising of women and children fleeing Honduran gangs, and the issue is one of Mexico and the US diplomacy finding a way to accommodate them. What's lost is just how hard, hard, left the organizers of what has become this humanitarian disaster are. Even the liberation-theology types are getting concerned. The caravan agenda is a hard-left, pro-Chavista one, and drawing the fringiest leftwing groups. To its organizers on the ground, the caravan is not a humanitarian mission, it's a by-any-means-necessary political mission." • Showalter points out that the real aim of the caravan organizers is to "confront the US. The moms-and-kids are window dressing." Here is Showalter's reprint of what Puebla Sin Fronteras has on its Spanish website announce for the border protest Sunday : "We, the San Diego Migrant and Refugee Solidarity Coalition, composed of migrant rights and social justice groups, invite individuals and organizations across the country and globe to organize demonstrations in their cities, and if they have the capacity, to join our rally and march to the border. We call for an action on November 25th to commemorate the anniversary of the 2017 Honduran election stolen by the US government-backed, right-wing military dictator Juan Orlando Hernández....It should be clear that they are not just acting with the support of a cabinet of white supremacists and a majority GOP in the Senate but are also emboldened by the last few decades of bipartisan militarization of the border, mass raids, expansion of for-profit detention centers, and mass deportations -- with more than 2.5 million migrants under Obama and Trump alone. Further, these policies are a continuation of a long history of anti-Indigenous colonial violence and genocide." Here is what Puebla Sin Fronteras wants : "The US government must publicly acknowledge a) its role in Honduran Coup in 2009, b) that the Honduran government is a US supported dictatorship, and c) recognize the political and social crises throughout Central America as caused by US foreign policy." • Showalter says : "That's not about moms and kids in the slightest, that's about the political demands of Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. And as you read further in the "demands," you can read that they also want American officials prosecuted. This is the caravan agenda as it throws hapless women and children in front of the cameras, leaves Tijuana a humanitarian disaster, and leaves Mexico with the prospect of a completely shut down border. As the leftists say : 'By any means necessary,' and those migrants are their easily expendable pawns....Even the liberation-theology priests, the famous rifles-and-cassocks crowd of Latin American Idiot fame, are warning they are a problem. Univision has a report (Spanish only) here, but here is a translation from Google -- "Father Solalinde assures that Pueblo Sin Fronteras uses the migrant caravan to its own advantage. 'Some are extremists,' in this way the priest referred to the activists who accompany the mass exodus and assured that they will cause problems as they are already doing internationally between the US and Mexico....This is amazing stuff, completely ignored by the mainstream media and available only in the Spanish-language press. And these people are at the heart of the caravan roiling both the US and Mexico, creating a humanitarian disaster in the true marxist tradition. My question : Why are they completely off the U.S. press radar?" • • • DEAR READERS, the common thread shared by the Russia Dossier / MI6 / Mueller Report situation and the confrontation on the US-Mexico border is this -- the southern border confrontation, like the Russia Dossier / MI6 / Mueller Report situation, demonstrates just how alone President Trump is in his battle against the Swamp and those who feed off it. Mexico has an incoming socialist government that will try to appease President Trump by purporting to cooperate with him while dragging its feet on doing anything to relieve the situation on its own side of the border at Tijuana. The goal must surely be to make the Trump administration and the US military look mean-spirited and incompetent -- and to save skin, Mexico's, by forcing the US to take all the migrants at its southern border and thus eliminate the problem for Mexico. AND, in the border situation, there is the ProgDem press trying its best to make President Trump look bad by reporting squalid conditions in the Tijuana sports stadium where the migrants have been held for more than a week, by talking up the so-called rampant poverty and violence in their home countries, and by, as BuzzFeed News put it on Sunday, calling the migrants peace-loving : "Hundreds of the group's members came together for a peaceful demonstration in Tijuana on Sunday, calling for their asylum claims to be processed more quickly, Reuters reported. The demonstration reportedly got out of hand when hundreds of migrants broke away and headed toward the border." The NYT reported : "Mexican federal police attempted to stop the migrants as they rushed toward the border, but they were unsuccessful." Reuters reported : "Hundreds of the caravan members held a peaceful sit-in a few hundred feet from the fence." The US media calls President Trump "hostile" to the migrant caravan by requesting the deployment of thousands of troops at the border and signing a proclamation that would prevent some of its members from claiming asylum. Others in the media call the President's attempt to secure the southern US border "stoking anti-immigrant and xenophobic fears among his base." • None of this is any more true than is the notion that the Trump campaign "colluded" with Russia or that the Steele Dossier is anything by a pack of Fake political dirt shoveled at President Trump to destroy him. MI6, Dershowitz, Mexico, Puebla Sin Fronteras, and the US media can rant forever -- they will not change the facts. And, Jerome Corsi may just bring some of the unsavory facts about the Mueller probe out into the bright light of day.