Pine Barrens Mafia Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-letter-from-australian-official-emerges-that-casts-doubt-on-new-york-times-report?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro Enemies. of. the. people. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren Zevon Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 From Daily Wire article: A letter emerged late on Monday from the Australian government that directly disputed the accuracy of a New York Times report that claimed that President Donald Trump “pushed” Australia to help Attorney General William Barr investigate the origins of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation in an attempt to “discredit” the investigation in what The Times claimed was an example of Trump “using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests.” The letter, reported by Nine News Australia’s Kerrie Yaxley, is dated May 28, 2019 From New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/us/politics/trump-australia-barr-mueller.html Mr. Trump initiated the discussion with Mr. Morrison in recent weeks explicitly for the purpose of requesting Australia’s help in the review, according to the two people with knowledge of the discussion. Continue to hate your enemies but at least use logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 (edited) What’s tricky about the Times’s report of the Morrison call is that it’s easy to imagine Trump having an improper purpose but hard to see how he did anything improper. It’s natural to believe that the president was concerned first and foremost with himself and his reelection campaign in placing the call. The essence of his approach to life is to look out for number one, always and everywhere; that’s also what makes it so easy to believe that his pressure on Ukraine to open a Biden investigation was motivated by wanting to damage a political opponent, not some abstract concern with corruption by former U.S. officials. There’s none of that here. The Durham probe is a legitimate DOJ inquiry and it’s DOJ officials who are involved in it. There’s no hint of Australia being threatened with anything if they refused to assist Trump either. There’s nothing objectively shady about the president asking a foreign head of state to help out the Justice Department. . , Edited October 1, 2019 by B-Man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Lost in the left’s narrative regarding President Trump’s phone calls with world leaders is that it’s neither criminal nor inappropriate for him to ask for assistance on affairs with which they or their government can have direct knowledge. It’s ridiculous prima facie that somehow these actions are supposed to be impeachable, yet here we are, the media and the Democrats, digging deeper in hopes of finding anything that sticks. It is the responsibility of the executive branch of the United States government to enforce the laws. This seems to have been lost on Congressional Democrats who now believe they’re the enforcers. It doesn’t matter if enforcing the law works in favor of the President. Being a political opponent does not earn someone a free pass from scrutiny from the Department of Justice or the White House. Crimes are crimes. As the left often says, no one is above the law. The latest “bombshell” reported by the NY Times attempts to condemn President Trump for asking Australia for help. This is not only well within the President’s scope of power, but one can even argue failure to do so would be a betrayal of his oath to the Constitution. There were potential high crimes and misdemeanors committed by multiple people. The only reason you haven’t heard much about it is because it was Democrats allegedly committing the crimes. If President Trump and the Republicans had done what President Obama and the Democrats allegedly did, the case for impeachment would be much more clear than it is today because the media would be all over it. But when President Obama was in office, the media learned to turn a blind eye. https://noqreport.com/2019/09/30/yes-president-can-ask-help-investigations-including-2016-election-hunter-biden/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRC Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 7 hours ago, B-Man said: Lost in the left’s narrative regarding President Trump’s phone calls with world leaders is that it’s neither criminal nor inappropriate for him to ask for assistance on affairs with which they or their government can have direct knowledge. It’s ridiculous prima facie that somehow these actions are supposed to be impeachable, yet here we are, the media and the Democrats, digging deeper in hopes of finding anything that sticks. It is the responsibility of the executive branch of the United States government to enforce the laws. This seems to have been lost on Congressional Democrats who now believe they’re the enforcers. It doesn’t matter if enforcing the law works in favor of the President. Being a political opponent does not earn someone a free pass from scrutiny from the Department of Justice or the White House. Crimes are crimes. As the left often says, no one is above the law. The latest “bombshell” reported by the NY Times attempts to condemn President Trump for asking Australia for help. This is not only well within the President’s scope of power, but one can even argue failure to do so would be a betrayal of his oath to the Constitution. There were potential high crimes and misdemeanors committed by multiple people. The only reason you haven’t heard much about it is because it was Democrats allegedly committing the crimes. If President Trump and the Republicans had done what President Obama and the Democrats allegedly did, the case for impeachment would be much more clear than it is today because the media would be all over it. But when President Obama was in office, the media learned to turn a blind eye. https://noqreport.com/2019/09/30/yes-president-can-ask-help-investigations-including-2016-election-hunter-biden/ You are only allowed to ask for foreign help when you are trying to dig up dirt on Trump. That is legal. Anything Trump does is illegal. If it hasn't been codified yet, it will be soon, with it being retroactive back to his inauguration. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 ..THE MEDIA FACTOR The Politico Playbook opens today this supposed New York Times bombshell advancing the impeachment project (bolding in original): THE STORY EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT — “Trump Pressed Australian Leader to Help Barr Investigate Mueller Inquiry’s Origins,” by NYT’s Mark Mazzetti and Katie Benner: “President Trump pushed the Australian prime minister during a recent telephone call to help Attorney General William P. Barr gather information for a Justice Department inquiry that Mr. Trump hopes will discredit the Mueller investigation, according to two American officials with knowledge of the call. “The White House curbed access to a transcript of the call — which the president made at Mr. Barr’s request — to a small group of aides, one of the officials said. The restriction was unusual and similar to the handling of a July call with the Ukrainian president that is at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. “Like that call, Mr. Trump’s discussion with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia shows the president using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests. “The discussion with Mr. Morrison shows the extent to which Mr. Trump views the attorney general as a crucial partner: The president is using federal law enforcement powers to aid his political prospects, settle scores with his perceived ‘deep state’ enemies and show that the Mueller investigation had corrupt, partisan origins.” NYT And that’s not all! The media have put on a full-court press. Playbook continues: — WAPO’S DEVLIN BARRETT, SHANE HARRIS and MATT ZAPOTOSKY: “Barr has already made overtures to British intelligence officials, and last week the attorney general traveled to Italy, where he and Durham met senior Italian government officials and Barr asked the Italians to assist Durham, according to one person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue. It was not Barr’s first trip to Italy to meet intelligence officials, the person said. “The Trump administration has made similar requests of Australia, said people who discussed the interactions on the condition of anonymity because they involve an ongoing investigation and sensitive talks between governments.” WaPo Wait! There is more: HMM … “Pompeo Took Part in Ukraine Call, Official Says,” by WSJ’s Courtney McBride and Sadie Gurman: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was among the administration officials who listened in on the July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president, a senior State Department official said Monday, a disclosure that ties the State Department more closely to the House impeachment inquiry.” WSJ {snip} What we have here is the drumbeat of stories creating the appearance of scandal where none exists (except perhaps for the underlying leaks). Even if Trump had pressed for help, it should be difficult to make something of it. It is in our national interest to get to the root of the collusion hoax that continues to roil our politics. Indeed, we are in its death throes. We have moved so smoothly from the Russia collusion hoax to the Ukraine phone call that we hardly noticed the transition. It is the misleading appearance of scandal in the Times story above that Kim Strassel pierces in her concise comment below. Quote Kimberley Strassel ✔@KimStrassel Note what NYT is doing here--trying to suggest questions about 2016 are beyond the pale. Since when is getting to the truth a "personal political interest"? They loved it when Mueller was investigating 2016; but now want all further queries to stop. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1178774798891180032 … Quote The New York Times ✔@nytimes Like the call with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, the discussion with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia shows President Trump using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests https://nyti.ms/2mkwmL0 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 More on the above: Remember -- Mueller did NOT look into Fusion GPS by his own admission. It was "outside his scope". So the media's attempt to frame this as "going after Mueller" is a flat out lie. It has nothing to do with Mueller. Mueller wasn't the original crime -- the original crime was political spying on Americans by an unrestrained USIC on behalf of the Obama administration and Clinton campaign. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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