Democrats Flee Pelosi while Americans Flock to President Trump

ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR ROLLS ON WITH HIS PROBE OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION. And, the Swamp Democrats keep screaming "Impeachment" as a diversionary tactic. • • • ANOTHER TRUMP TOWER MEETING. This one was in January, 2017, and during the meeting CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and FBI Director James Comey briefed President-Elect Trump on the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election. After the others left, Comey told Trump about more specifics of the Dossier’s claims. On January 10, 2017, CNN ran a story titled “Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him.” AND, later, on the night of January 10, citing unknown sources, BuzzFeed published the Dossier under the title “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia.” • We can see why AG Barr is interested in the second Trump Tower meeting and why the mainstream media is talking only about the first “Trump Tower Meeting,” which has become synonymous with the June 9, 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Trump campaign senior members, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. The Mueller investigation has already reported it could find no collusion there. But, the MSM and Swamp Democrats persist in raising it as a sign that President Trump somehow colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. • NOW, AG Barr is onto the real 'collusion' meeting, the collusion set up by Brennan, Clapper, and Comey to compromise President-Elect Trump by placing him in a situation in which he could not deny knowing about the Russian Dossier's contents, while "somebody" or "sombodies" -- we would never accuse the Brennan, Clapper, Comey Unholy Three -- leaked the January, 2017, meeting's contents, and indeed its Dossier, to the public. The leaked information was voraciously eaten whole by the Progressive lapdog anti-Trump pro-Hillary media as proof that the 2016 election was "stolen." • Well, AG Barr is on to them. In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Barr said, ” One of the things we want to look into [is] the handling of the meeting on January 6, 2017, between the intelligence chiefs and the President and the leaking of information subsequent to that meeting.” Freedom News reports that : "After that meeting multiple media outlets reported someone leaked to them that Russia might have compromising information about President Elect Trump. During that meeting CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and FBI Director James Comey briefed President Elect Trump on the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election. After the others left, Comey told Trump about more specifics of the Dossier’s claims." Then came the CNN story titled “Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him," and the BuzzFeed publication of the Dossier under the title “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia” that cited "unknown sources." Freedom News states : "Since then, Republicans have repeatedly called for an investigation into the likelihood the BuzzFeed’s article was made possible by criminal leaks of classified information by the intelligence community. AG Barr would not specify what his questions are about this meeting but said, 'it’s one of the things we need to look at. We’re still at the stage of gathering all the information.' • Freedom News reminds us that : "Former FBI General Counsel James Baker admitted to Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News that the bureau at that time was worried Comey might appear to be 'blackmailing' President Elect Donald Trump. He told Isikoff, 'Jim [Comey] and I had talked many times about the Hoover days, especially the investigation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., what was done there, the blackmailing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. So yeah, we were quite worried about that, quite worried about how that would come off.' Baker said he discussed in length with Comey about the wisdom of pursuing such 'sensational and salacious allegations' knowing that no one had 'verified' their accuracy. Baker said the FBI took the Dossier 'seriously...but not literally.' He claims the meeting with Trump was to get ahead of stories leaking to the press. The story was leaked. Within hours, not days!" • Earlier this week Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani called Comey a “jackass” in the way he handled the Dossier and subsequent meeting at Trump Tower.” That whole thing with going up to Trump and telling him about the Steele Dossier...that wasn’t being a Hoover?” • For almost two years, says Freedom News : "the FBI’s handling of the Steele Dossier has been in question. There have been at least three federal investigations of alleged FISA court abuse and other questionable ways the DOJ and the FBI handled the Trump-Russia investigation. No wonder the Democrat-controlled House wants to tie AG Barr’s hands any way it can. Like much of America, he wants to get the facts on how this whole affair began. He told Bill Hemmer of Fox News, 'The fact of the matter is Bob Mueller did not look at the government’s activities. He was looking at whether or not the Trump campaign had conspired with the Russians. But he was not going back and looking at the counter-intelligence program. And we have a number of investigations underway that touch upon it -- the main one being the office of inspector general that’s looking at the FISA warrants.' " As Freedom News says, quoting Barr’s words, "there’s a lot about this story that doesn’t 'hang together.' ” • • • AND, WHILE THEIR SWAMP BURNED, THE DEMOCRATS FIDDLED WITH IMPEACHMENT. Townhall published an article by Guy Benson on Tuesday titled "Popcorn: Dems Clash in Closed Meeting, Members of Pelosi's Leadership Team Revolt on Impeachment." Benson wrote : "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is once again struggling to maintain control over her new majority's caucus -- even battling dissension among her own leadership team. Pelosi has already faced multiple rank-and-file insurrections on GOP-led motions to recommit, caved to pressure and lost a battle over condemning a freshman member's anti-Semitism, decided to ignore her chamber's budgeting requirements in order to sidestep endless intra-party spending battles, and recently watched as her party was forced to shelve (since revived) DREAM Act legislation due to internal squabbling over extending amnesty to people with criminal records. Her latest headache is on impeachment, which she's opposed for months on tactical grounds. Her rhetorical fence-straddling has been awkward and strained at times (what does this mean?), and now it appears as though there's a growing chance that her delicate balancing act could be heading toward a breaking point. In a closed-door meeting yesterday, top House Democrats reportedly clashed over the issue of pursuing impeachment against President Trump. Though Pelosi did not abandon her opposition to the idea, her stance came under siege from some typical allies : GET IN THE ROOM : '@SpeakerPelosi's own leadership team tonight rebelled against her on impeachment. During a closed door meeting, at least five members of her leadership team pushed her to bless an impeachment inquiry against Trump. w/@mikedebonis https://t.co/gVu9YKOl1x — Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 21, 2019.' More details, via Politico : 'House Democratic leaders sparred internally on Monday over whether to begin an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies rejecting the call to move forward for now, according to multiple sources. Representatives David Cicilline of Rhode Island, Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Joe Neguse of Colorado -- all members of Democratic leadership -- pushed to begin impeachment proceedings during a leadership meeting in Pelosi's office, said the sources. Pelosi and Representatives Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, Hakeem Jeffries of New York and Cheri Bustos of Illinois -- some of her key allies -- rejected their calls, saying Democrats' message is being drowned out by the fight over possibly impeaching Trump...While Pelosi and her top Democrats argue that a majority of House Democrats don't want to impeach Trump, she is under growing pressure from some of her most hard-line members to move more forcefully against the President...Several members and aides said an impeachment inquiry resolution could be introduced in the House Judiciary Committee in the next several days, spurring more Democratic debate over how to respond to Trump. During the Steering and Policy Committee meeting, [Tennessee Democrat Representative Steve ] Cohen said President Bill Clinton faced impeachment proceedings 'over sex' while Trump is 'raping the country,' according to two sources in the room. Cohen later confirmed his remarks.' " • Pelosi has often said she opposed an impeachment inquiry. Politico says : "Impeaching Trump, or even beginning an impeachment inquiry against Trump, is a huge risk for Democrats. Pelosi and her allies complain the anti-Trump fervor is overwhelming Democratic messaging on their agenda, and claim that most of the rank and file is against the move. Democratic leaders also fear that impeaching Trump in the House, only to see him acquitted by the Senate, would strengthen his hand in 2020." • Freedom News says : "...it's quite obvious that Pelosi and those on her side of this escalating argument are watching the polls carefully. They all show lopsided opposition to impeachment : 'Since Mueller’s report came out, seven national pollsters have asked whether Congress should launch impeachment proceedings against Trump. ... The percentage of respondents who say yes has never reached 40." https://t.co/uYTzrYYO6a— Will Saletan (@saletan)May 21, 2019.' " • • • PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLS PELOSI'S BLUFF. TheHill reported on Wednesday that : "Democratic calls to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump are reaching a crescendo -- and that’s fine with Republicans, who believe such a push would rebound to the GOP’s advantage. Some Trump allies even claim the President is trying to goad his opponents into pursuing impeachment against him. They note both his provocative rhetoric and his stonewalling of congressional inquiries. 'I see some of what the President is doing as a briar patch strategy,' said Michael Caputo, a longtime Trump friend who met with the President at the White House last month. 'I am not the only one who thinks that impeachment would be a disaster for the Democrats.' But Democrats, especially on the left of the party, are increasingly assertive about impeachment. On Tuesday, Representative Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) tweeted that Trump had 'pushed Congress to a point where we must start an impeachment inquiry.' " Ditto Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y), and reportedly House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). TheHill says : "The pro-impeachment case seems compelling -- to Democrats. They note that special counsel Robert Mueller explicitly declined to exonerate Trump from obstruction of justice in his Russia report. They say that Congress needs to assert its proper authority or have its oversight powers weakened forever. And, as a political matter, they believe that an impeachment inquiry could give a sharper focus to the probes that are now going on across several different committees." But, states TheHill, "those who are skeptical of the political case for impeachment can buttress their case, too. There is little evidence in opinion polls that the public is crying out for impeachment proceedings to begin. An NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll late last month found that 48% of respondents believed Congress should not begin impeachment hearings, while only 17% thought it should do so. The Pelosi position -- that Congress should keep investigating but not yet go down the road of impeachment -- was favored by 32%. A Quinnipiac University Poll around the same time found 29% of respondents saying Congress should begin impeachment proceedings, while 66% were against doing so." • Pelosi is said to be "concerned about the possibility of an impeachment push overshadowing her party’s agenda on kitchen-table issues,' according to TheHill....Doug Heye, a former communications director for the Republican National Committee who has at times been critical of Trump, told TheHill, 'Pelosi is right about this. If you want to have a winning message to a larger group of voters, impeachment is not the way to do it.' Such an effort, Heye added, 'would give Trump a real opportunity to present himself as a victim, to say to voters, ‘Since the day I started, they’ve been out to destroy me.’....For now, it seems that partisans are set on a full-on collision course. Progressive Democrats are bent on impeachment. Trump loyalists say, bring it on. Democrats 'can’t resist it. They are addicted to it. Impeachment is their crack,' said Caputo." • For the first time in her life, it appears that Nancy Pelosi is right, and her Democrat Party refuses to listen to her. How sweet the irony is. • • • THE PRESIDENT IN PENNSYLVANIA FOR A TRUMP RALLY. Fox News reported on the Montoursville, Pennsylvania, rally where President Trump slammed Scranton-born Biden, saying to the raucous crowd : "He deserted you. A YouTube video site called the crowd "massive." • Fox News reporter Gregg Re wrote : "President Trump focused on the economy at a fiery rally at the Energy Aviation Hangar in Montoursville, Pennsylvania Monday evening, just two days after 2020 Democrat presidential frontrunner Joe Biden held his own campaign rally in nearby Philadelphia. And Trump caustically reminded the hometown crowd that the Biden -- who was born in Scranton, Pa. -- quickly took his political career to neighboring Delaware. 'And don't forget : Biden deserted you. He's not from Pennsylvania. I guess he was born here, but he left you folks. He left you for another state. Remember that, please. I meant to say that. This guy talks about, 'Oh, I know Scranton.' Well, I know the places better. He left you for another state, and he didn't take care of you, because he didn't take care of your jobs. He let other countries come in and rip off America. That doesn't happen anymore.' " • Gregg Re says : "The pivotal battleground state could determine the next occupant of the White House. But on Monday, the President was largely in town to campaign on behalf of Republican Fred Keller, who [faced] Democrat Marc Friedenberg in Tuesday's special election to fill the US House seat formerly held by Republican Representative Tom Marino, who resigned in January.Trump called the vote 'crucial' and 'a little bit of a referendum' on his presidency, and reminded the audience that pollsters had predicted he would lose the state in 2016. Keller, who walked off Air Force One with Trump, spoke briefly at the rally, saying he appreciated Trump showing his 'support for the hardworking people of Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District.' " • Keller won easily in the heavily GOP district that overwhelmingly backed Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, helping Trump win the state overall. Monday's rally, said Gregg Re, "reflected the district's enthusiasm. At one point, Trump invited a man up to the stage wearing a 'MAGA hat' and a jacket decked out in a wall pattern, as the crowd chanted, 'Build the wall!' And a deafening chorus of 'Lock her up' broke out the first time Trump mentioned Clinton....The US economy saw 263,000 jobs created just last month, far exceeding any expectations. With historically low unemployment rates and positive economic indicators across the board, including in Pennsylvania, Trump asked, 'How the hell do you lose this election? I think next time we're just going to have to get a bigger hanger,' Trump said at the start of the rally, as the oversized crowd broke out into a sustained chant of 'four more years.' Large crowds had assembled early Monday at Williamsport Regional Airport in Montoursville, as supporters eagerly awaited the first presidential visit to Lycoming County in nearly two decades. 'Get out and vote -- can't take a chance,' Trump said. 'You joined our movement because you rejected the failures and betrayals of the past....You reclaimed your destiny, you defended your dignity, and you took back your country.' As Trump derided what he called the 'treason' of the secret FBI investigations into his campaign that presented 'artificial obstacles' to his candidacy, and chants of Lock them up' rang out, Trump remarked, 'Well, we have a great new attorney general who's going to give it a fair look.' " • • • DEAR READERS, isn't this presidential remark to the Montoursville rally crowd a key to President Trump's 2016 victory and to his 2020 win? "You've always been loyal to this nation. Now, you finally have a President who is loyal to you. Your dreams are my dreams. Your hopes are my hopes. And your future is what I'm fighting for, each and every day." • Amen, Mr. President. Amen.