HORIST: McCabe, a treacherous coup-plotter

Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe has broken his silence to explain how and why he initiated an obstruction of justice investigation against the President of the United States.  According to him, he and others in the top ranks of the FBI – including Director James Comey, who had just been fired – were deeply concerned that President Trump had gained office with the conspiratorial assistance of the Russian government.  At least that is their story.

In outtakes from his upcoming ABC’s 60 Minutes interview, McCabe branded himself as some sort of national patriot – defending the Republic from a presidential usurper.  He confirmed that he wanted to launch the investigation in such a way that it could not be shut down for any reason.  He alleges to have feared that Trump and others, presumably Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, would terminate the investigation quietly at the behest of Trump.

McCabe further underscored his claimed seriousness of their concerns by revealing that Rosenstein had discussed wearing a body wire to record Trump making incriminating comments.  If the word “entrapment” popped into your mind, you are getting the drift of it.

The group – dare I say, cabal – then supposedly discussed the possibility of using the 25^th Amendment to remove Trump from office.  As expected, the #NeverTrump Resistance Movement media jumped on this story as if it were gospel.  They spun and re-spun the story to advance the idea that the expressed concerns and fears McCabe alleged were real.  According to the pandering press, McCabe & Co. were great Americans doing their job — saving the Republic from an illegitimate President.

Of course, all this was being done without one important legal requirement – probable cause.  They were not acting on evidence, but hoping to find something … anything … to pin on the President.

It is often said that the simplest explanation is most often the correct one.  In this case, the facts and history suggest a far simpler and far darker explanation.  Though McCabe presented his known actions in the most positive manner possible, he did admit that he and others were looking to bring down President Trump by alleging – concocting – a criminal case against him.

This has the stench of a palace coup, with several of the top leaders of the FBI as the coup-plotters.  Among the most prominent besides McCabe would be the recently terminated James Comey, Special Agent Peter Strzok (and his paramour co-worker Lisa Page), Bruce Ohr (and wife Nellie) and a couple of lesser go-alongs.

There are a number of important facts that cast doubt on McCabe’s self-serving explanation.  First and foremost is that he not only had the motivation to lie about the events, but he has been proven to be a liar.  It got him fired without a pension from the FBI as an outcome of an internal Inspector General investigation.

McCabe is a disgruntled – to say the least – former employee, who has every motivation to get even with those who “done him wrong.”  The fact that the eastern elitist media takes a disgruntled liar at face value says a lot about their journalistic ethics – or lack thereof.

We also have to remember that the plot to take Trump down did not commence with the firing of Comey.  No. No. No.  They were hell-bent on stopping Trump from being elected.  They had all their eggs in the Hillary Clinton basket.  Their animus against Trump was unconcealable – and when it was discovered in a serious of text messages between Strzok and Page, the D.C. publication The Hill wrote: “It is no longer in dispute that they (Strzok, Page and others) held animus for Donald Trump, who was a subject of their Russia probe, or that they openly discussed using the powers of their office to “stop” Trump from becoming president.”  Consider for a moment the highlighted phrase, “using the powers of their office.”

It was after those text messages went public that Strzok was bounced from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team – and one can only wonder why Strzok was selected in the first place.  Mueller most certainly must have known of his feelings about Trump well in advance.

The interest in protecting Clinton was evident when Comey concluded an investigation and articulated a number of official ethical and legal lapses on the part of candidate Secretary of State Clinton but recommended against criminal prosecution.  Oh wait!  Comey did more than recommend against prosecution – which was in and of itself an abuse of his authority – he actually decided she should not be prosecutor.  He falsely and improperly assumed the role of the Department of Justice by saying that no prosecutor would pursue the case.

It is also noteworthy that Strzok — who had the lead in the Clinton investigation –  arbitrarily altered Comey’s final report to remove wording that would suggest prosecutable criminality on the part of Clinton.

McCabe’s interest in Clinton was reflected in the fact that his wife was not only a Democrat candidate for the State Senate in Virginia but was closely tied to Clintons.  In fact, Jill McCabe received approximately $500,000 through Clinton’s top fundraiser, Virginia Governor Terry  McAuliffe.

According to rumors, Comey’s skin in the game was to be retained as FBI Director AND the prospect of having his name replace the controversial and largely discredited J Edgar Hoover’s name on the FBI headquarters in D.C.

It was during the campaign that the bogus dossier surfaced alleging that Trump had been indiscreet in Moscow – salacious sex, of course – and that Vladimir Putin had the goods on him.  The unsubstantiated dossier was obtained by the Clinton campaign from Russian sources through a former British intelligence agent, Michael Steele — a fact that should have garnered the attention of the FBI as a case of Russian meddling in the American election, but strangely did not.

And how did that phony dossier get into the hands of the Trump adversaries in the FBI?  Weeeell, it was provided to another member of the cabal, Special Agent Bruce Ohr.  And from whom did he receive this fraudulent document?  From his wife, Nellie, who worked for the consulting firm that fronted for the Clinton campaign and actually paid for the document.

The unsubstantiated – and later discredited – dossier was used by the FBI to intimidate Trump and eventually as a reason to seek surveillance warrants on Trump campaign in the person of Carter Page.  Of course, Comey did not disclose to the court that the document was unverified and was obtained from the Clinton Campaign.  In short, they pulled a fast one on the court.

In sworn testimony, Comey admitted that he had improperly – and perhaps illegally – leaked damaging information on Trump to a friend who was directed to get it to the friendly New York Times.  Comey confirmed that his intent was to trigger the appointment of a special counsel to go after Trump.

We also have to keep in mind that all this Trump stuff was ancillary to the reasons for the Special Counsel.  The primary purpose was to investigate the broad issue of Russian interference in the election.  Initial findings suggested that Russia did interfere, but not just in favor of one side.  For those with memories longer than the life span of a fruit fly, Russian social media activities were directed to help Clinton by hurting Trump, to help Trump by hurting Clinton and to spread general public consternation – especially in race relations. The subsequent focus on Trump and the campaign was the product of the anti-Trump Resistance Movement and a dishonest and unfair news media – all orchestrated by the cabal within the FBI.

Once Trump was elected, the conspiracy against him at the FBI did not cease – and that is the scary part.  That is when politicization of the FBI in a campaign became the abuse of the FBI to unseat a duly elected President.

We know something was afoot – as they say in those old British detective movies – when Strzok assuaged his lover’s concerns over the election of Trump by assuring her that “they” had an “insurance policy.”  The plural “they” makes it clear that the cryptic “insurance policy” was the work of a conspiracy.  And who the “they” may have been became clearer and clearer due to their own Inspector Clouseau-style bumbling.

We have to address the fact that both Comey and McCabe have what is called “contemporary notes” supporting their position.  These are said to be “strong evidence” by Democrats and the fawning news media.  Really?  Do you really believe that intelligence agents who are willing to prop up a phony dossier are not clever enough to salt the mine with phony reports?  By the time they drafted those notes, they were already months into the plan to stop Trump.  In view of all the actions and lies, it would be foolish to take those contemporary notes at face value.

Oh … then there is the issue of the 25^th Amendment.  It is being bantered about as evidence of the seriousness of the investigation into Trump.  They say it was being seriously discussed and considered.

What utter nonsense.

Read the 25^th Amendment.  It does not remotely apply.  It is designed to address the physical incapacitation of a President – you know, one who may be in vegetative state from a stroke.  It requires the consent of the Vice President and the Cabinet.

The anti-Trump cabal in the FBI and the folks at the Department of Justice are all very smart lawyers.  They know that the 25^th Amendment is not at all applicable — and it is impossible to believe that they would engage in serious conversation of using it against Trump no matter how much they hated him and want him out.  It is nothing more than another one of those phony narratives advanced for public consumption.

Not since old J. Edgar Hoover was blackmailing politicians – including Presidents of the United States – and abusing the FBI to go after Martin Luther King, has the agency been so damaged by the misdeeds and misconduct of its most senior officials.  At least Hoover was only blackmailing them.  These characters were hoping to derail a presidential candidate, — and failing that, overthrow an election.

Now that we have a new attorney general overseeing the Department of Justice, let us hope that justice will be served.

So, there ‘tis.