Mark Tapscott says they all have common elements:
Just as Holder refused to turn over Fast & Furious documents sought by Congress, the DOJ and the FBI have done the same thing.
Just as Obama, Rice, Powers and Clinton lied about Benghazi, so did Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (appointed by Trump), former FBI Director James Comey (appointed by Obama), and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe (promoted by Comey) — when they signed the FISA applications and thereby certified the credibility of the material included in the documents.
Just as Lerner weaponized the IRS against the Tea Party, using the FISA process and the Steele dossier to enable surveillance of Page was a raw exercise of federal law enforcement and intelligence resources in an effort to harm Trump and thereby help Clinton.
Finally, just as the double standard of justice protected Clinton, the FBI investigation of the Russian collusion allegations led to the Mueller probe against Trump, even though it was Clinton who paid for Russian dirt on Trump.
In Republican administrations, the media are bulldogs. In Democrat administrations they’re lapdogs. This is one of the reasons to vote Republican.
In Republican administrations, the media are bulldogs. In Democrat administrations they’re lapdogs. This is one of the reasons to vote Republican.
This. This explains my entire reasoning for supporting Trump in the latter part of the primary and into the general election.
My political agenda is limited government. Under Obama, a sycophantic media gave the Executive Branch far more authority than I would ever want it to have in the United States, and Obama flaunted that authority over and over (“I won” and “I have a pen and phone”). It seemed to me that we didn’t just need a President the media didn’t like, but one they feared. They didn’t fear Jeb, Rubio, or the pathetic Kasich. They feared Trump.
So when it became obvious the GOP would tank Cruz rather than stopping Trump (by backing last place Kasich); then the choice for me was clear; elect Trump. If all Trump did was put the fear of excess executive authority in the media; then he was worth the vote. It is for certain Hillary wouldn’t not have frightened them until way too late.
Trump has been more successful than I imagined. I think if he had received GOP support, then ACA would be gone, but alas that didn’t happen. Sadly, lack of GOP support has allowed remnants of the former Administration to retain too much of their ill gotten power. A government that can lie to its citizens without consequence is a danger to those citizens.
The Obama Administration has jailed filmmakers denying them free speech, it has armed gang leaders for the purpose of them committing murder, put in power terrorists groups that killed civilians in other countries until the local populations rose up to retake their country, spied on journalist under the claim of treason when ever a journalist dared to report on these stories, and abused law enforcement to punish political opponents.
We’ve known all this for over half a decade now. It’s a shame that only now our elected officials are taking action. And just holding people to account for their crimes isn’t enough. The authority that allowed them to succeed for so long needs to be removed.
Hint, if you don’t like Tariff’s and Trade Wars; then take away those tools from the Executive Branch. Otherwise, you complaints are hollow when the President has effectively used these tools to force negotiation for what he believes are better deals for the United States. I think time will tell if they are, but he’s only doing what he thinks is right to do and is allowed to do.
They feared Trump.
The media doesn’t fear Trump. They know he wont do anything to them and that his policies wont lead to NAZI Germany. They do hate him though and use fear to manipulate their viewers/readers. It is clinically insane how many people think Trump will treat them.
The media doesn’t fear Trump.
I disagree. I think the media is using their own product here. And there’s a lot of fear in that product.
Trump won’t be sending goons around to smash printing presses and arrest reporters. But he’s being very effective in calling out the old media on their lies, which does much to damage their customary position as arbiters of “truth”.
Leland, I agree with everything you wrote. Spot on!
The other day there was a blogpost (I think Instapundit linked to it) about the ten or eleven reasons why Obama was the worst US president in history. I thought, “If only Baghdad Jim were still around to ‘refute’ each of these reasons.” (And by ‘refute’ I mean “regurgitate the Hive party line.”) But when it comes to faithful party-line regurgitating Hivesters, we still have Bob-1!
A smaller scandal but notable by being in the Projection Department:
“Surveillance footage shows one of President Obama’s senior officials following a woman around a DC Metro station and taking a picture up her skirt with his cell phone”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5997025/Obama-advisor-William-Mendoza-seen-taking-picture-womans-skirt-DC-Metro.html
Whatever the Dems accuse you of, be certain they are doing. In this case maltreatment of women.
Obama certainly benefited from a corrupt DOJ that shielded him from any accountability by claiming to “investigate” scandals only to say nothing happened and all the evidence was destroyed.
We also have the IRS admitting they acted in a biased way towards the Tea Party and apologized for it. All done while Obama was in office.
So the progs who live in the fantasy world of no Obama scandals are flat wrong.