Mueller plans October
Surprise. Giuliani: midterm elections will be a Referendum on Impeaching
Trump
Newsletter published on August 6, 2018
(1) Mueller plans
October Surprise, just before Midterm elections
(2) Mueller to
present report & file indictments before Midterm elections
(3) Giuliani: midterm elections will be a
Referendum on Impeaching Trump
(4) Neocons are
behind Russiagate
(4) CIA/FBI/DOJ Plot
to Overthrow the President of the United States
(5) Trump should
nationalize Apple & other Globalist companies that offshore their
workers
(1) Mueller plans
October Surprise, just before Midterm elections
Robert Mueller Could Have An October Surprise For The
G.O.P.
The special counsel is expected to reach a conclusion—and
produce possible indictments—right around the midterm elections this fall.
BY ABIGAIL TRACY
JUNE 26, 2018 11:40 AM
Robert Mueller
[...] A source familiar with the investigation tells
Bloomberg that Mueller is “preparing to accelerate” his inquiry into whether
members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russian nationals to tilt the outcome of the election,
with conclusions—and possible indictments—expected this fall. The implication is
that Mueller will soon resolve the obstruction portion of his investigation,
which could involve making a determination as to Trump’s future legal
exposure.
That timeline could prove troublesome for both Mueller and
the Republican Party. Trump has already accused Mueller of interference in the
electoral process, writing on Twitter last month that the “13 Angry
Democrats”—his favored and misplaced sobriquet for Mueller’s team—“will be
MEDDLING with the midterm elections.” With the midterm elections set for
November 6, Mueller will be under extraordinary pressure to deliver a timely
report—Republicans have already suggested they are losing patience with the
13-month-long investigation—while not appearing to be timing the delivery of the
report, itself. As former F.B.I. director James Comey learned when the F.B.I.
discovered a new trove of e-mails connected to Hillary Clinton just days before
the 2016 election, it is effectively impossible to make an apolitical judgment
in a deeply politicized environment. Comey ultimately chose to publicize the
bureau’s case on Clinton, but kept secret its investigation into Trump—a
decision that has been endlessly picked over for signs of bias, including by
Comey. [...]
If Mueller does, in fact, reach some kind of conclusion this
fall, the result could be highly
damaging for Republicans in Congress. Midterm elections are historically bad for
the party in power, and Democrats have already flipped more than 40
legislative seats throughout the country since Trump’s inauguration, fueling
concerns that a blue wave could rob the
G.O.P. of the U.S. House of Representatives. A debate over whether the
president conspired with a foreign power to rig the election is the last thing
Republicans want on the eve of an election in which they are hoping to keep the
focus on the strong economy and tax cuts. “It’s mood music that doesn’t help,” a
senior Republican strategist said of the Russia investigation in an interview
with Politico earlier this year. “Every day the party is talking about this
investigation is a day they’re not talking about the economy and the tax cuts
they provided and jobs and things that are successfully happening.”
Of course, with Mueller’s approval eroding, Democrats worry
that a never-ending Russia investigation could hurt them at the polls, too.
After Trump claimed that Mueller and the Democrats are “meddling,” Senator Chris
Coons said it was “important” that the special counsel “avoid any major
announcements” close to the midterms. Democrats also have real concerns that
Trump could weaponize the Mueller investigation, detracting from their own focus
on health care and turning the election into a referendum on his legitimacy.
“He’s trying to frame the Mueller investigation as part of a political war,”
William Kristol, a vocal Never Trumper, told Politico last month. “It creates an
excuse for Trump, something for Trump to run against. The practical effect of it
will be, ‘You need to defend me against impeachment now.’”
(2) Mueller to
present report & file indictments before Midterm elections
Mueller Poised to Zero In on Trump-Russia Collusion
Allegations
By Chris Strohm and
Shannon Pettypiece
June 26, 2018, 6:00 PM GMT+10
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing to accelerate his
probe into possible collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and
Russians who sought to interfere in the 2016 election, according to a person
familiar with the investigation.
Mueller and his team of prosecutors and investigators have an
eye toward producing conclusions -- and possible indictments -- related to
collusion by fall, said the person,
who asked not to be identified. He’ll be able to turn his full attention to the
issue as he resolves other questions, including deciding soon whether to find
that Trump sought to obstruct justice. [...]
Trump accuses Mueller
team of 'meddling' in midterm elections
Donald Trump accuses Mueller team of 'meddling' in midterm
elections
President offers no proof for allegation about special
counsel investigators and says Democrats are guilty of ‘collusion’
Martin Pengelly and agencies
Donald Trump reached for a loaded term on Monday when without
offering proof he accused special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators of
“meddling” in the forthcoming midterm elections. The president also said only
Democrats were guilty of “collusion”. [...]
The US intelligence community agrees that Russia sought to
influence the 2016 election in Trump’s favour and against Hillary Clinton. The
Senate judiciary committee has supported
that view; the House intelligence committee, led by Trump allies, has said
there was no collusion by the Trump campaign.
On Tuesday, Trump tweeted: “The 13 Angry Democrats (plus
people who worked 8 years for Obama) working on the rigged Russia Witch Hunt,
will be MEDDLING with the mid-term elections, especially now that Republicans
(stay tough!) are taking the lead in Polls. There was no Collusion, except by
the Democrats. [...] chueyburns@realclearpolitics.com.
Follow her on Twitter @CHueyBurns.
(3) Giuliani: midterm
elections will be a Referendum on Impeaching Trump
Trump lawyer Giuliani says midterms will answer impeachment
question
Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday the
upcoming midterm elections will be a referendum on impeaching the president.
Giuliani said if Democrats hold the majority in the House,
there won't be enough votes to prevent impeachment proceedings.
Published 6:57 PM ET Wed, 1 Aug 2018
Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday the
upcoming midterm elections will be a referendum on impeaching the president.
"I say this not in my role as a lawyer but as a concerned
citizen and Republican," he said. "This election is going to be about
impeachment or no impeachment."
Giuliani made the comment while endorsing Eddie Edwards, who
is seeking the Republican nomination in New Hampshire's 1st Congressional
District. The seat is currently held by Democrat Carol Shea-Porter, who isn't
seeking re-election in November.
"If Democrats get control of the House, do you think they're
going to treat President Trump fairly?" Giuliani asked the crowd, some of whom
shouted "No!" in response.
"I don't think they will either," he said.
The House overwhelmingly blocked two impeachment efforts last
winter brought by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas. In December, he based his resolution
on claims that Trump had associated his presidency with causes rooted in bigotry
and racism, including Trump's blaming both sides for deadly violence at a white
supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. He tried again in January,
saying Trump had incited "hate and hostility" by reportedly using a vulgarity to
describe African countries.
Democrats opposing the effort said then it was premature to
act before special counsel Robert Mueller completes an investigation into
Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
But Giuliani said if Democrats hold the majority in the
House, there won't be enough votes to prevent impeachment proceedings.
"When you look at some of them on television — 'Traitor. He's
a traitor, he's this, he's that.' — You get the sense that there isn't a
fair-minded, large enough group of people there that we can trust not to take
this country down this terrible road."
(4) Neocons are
behind Russiagate
The Rise and Continued Influence of the Neocons. The Project
for the New American Century (PNAC)
By Michael Welch, Robbie Martin, Scott Price, and Mark
Robinowitz
Global Research, August 04, 2018
Robert Kagan. William Kristol. Paul Wolfowitz. Richard Perle.
John Bolton. Elliott Abrams. Gary Schmitt. These are a few of the names
generally associated with a strain of far-right political thought called
neoconservatism. [1][2]
Politically, the neocons favour a world in which the United
States adopts a much more aggressive military posture, and utilizes its military
might to not only contain terrorist and related threats to its security, but
force regime change in regions like the Middle East. They further take on the
task of ‘nation-building’ all in the name of creating a safer world for
‘democracy.’ It was the neocons who promoted the stratagem of pre-emptive
military action. [3]
The neocons enjoyed a robust period of influence under the
Bush-Cheney administration. The 9/11 attacks and the triggering of a ‘war on
terrorism’ enabled a series of foreign policy choices, most notably the War on
Afghanistan and the War on Iraq, which aligned with the aims and aspirations of
the group once referred to by President George Bush Sr. as the ‘crazies in the
basement.'[4]
The neocons did not vanish with the departure of the Bush
Republicans from office, and the rise of Obama. Indeed, the clout of this group
and their grip on power is arguably as strong as ever. Not only did they
continue to shape the U.S. foreign policy establishment, but they have managed
to alter what constitutes acceptable public and media discourse within the
world’s remaining superpower. The trajectory of neocon influence in Washington
is explored in depth in the documentary series, A Very Heavy Agenda, by
independent journalist and film-maker Robbie Martin. [...]
Robbie Martin: ... [...] So I was watching videos from this
think tank, they were called the Foreign Policy Initiative, and I quickly
learned maybe over 48 hour period, oh, the Foreign Policy Initiative is actually a
re-branded, reopened version of the Project for The New American Century
think tank, which was the most infamous neocon think tank that was behind the
Iraq War. Once I realized that, then I just…then I was obsessed with watching
these videos. I watched probably every single video on their YouTube channel,
and the majority of them were incredibly boring, very dry. And I was already in
a depressed place, so, you know, it was kind of just putting me into this weird
state where I was watching nothing but these dry foreign policy think tank
videos for weeks on end.
Finally I got to Robert Kagan. And I was listening to
him, and it struck me differently from the way that most other neoconservatives
would talk, because I perceived him as being more candid about the way American
foreign policy has actually conducted itself, and also more clever with the way
that I perceived him as, re-branding,
repackaging neocon rhetoric for the Obama era. Once I saw this, I became
fascinated with his psychology. And I was already sort of fascinated with Bill
Kristol’s psychology, you know, going back to when I was a young man when I
would watch Fox News you know during the Iraq War, I would watch Bill Kristol,
and I found him fascinating back then because he seemed on a different level
than most other, you know, war hawks that would go on Fox News.
But it was really Robert Kagan though that made me think, you
know, his own words are so fascinating and so candid and so revealing without
adding any editorial content that I wonder if this will work, if I present it
just simply in his own words. [...]
But I think one way to describe why they’re so important and
they’re still so influential is because they managed to, a very small handful of
them, maybe less than a dozen figures,
managed to convince the rest of, what people describe as the DC blob, the
sort of foreign policy consensus in DC overall, the neocons managed to rebrand
themselves, massage their rhetoric, and make themselves seem less crazy in order
to influence the larger DC foreign policy community into basically accepting and
going along with almost all their foreign policy platforms, with the exception
of overtly wanting to invade Iran which… arguably that is the neocon prize but
see, a lot of these smarter neocons like Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol, and a
lot of these neocons who managed to convince the blob, they have hidden, and not been open about
the fact that they want to overthrow the regime of Iran.
That’s one of their foreign policy platforms they’ve sort of
brushed under the rug, because that’s one of… The reason I’m giving that example
is because that’s how they have managed to cross the aisle, so to speak, in DC
and put a hand out to the neoliberal think tanks and say, hey we’re kind of on
the same side in this, and we all think Putin’s bad, and let’s really go after
him. Let’s overthrow Assad. So these are things that the neocons managed to
essentially convince and influence the rest of the DC foreign policy community
to believe. [...]
(4) CIA/FBI/DOJ Plot
to Overthrow the President of the United States
By Paul Craig Roberts | Jul 31, 2018
There is no evidence Trump's a Russian agent, but there's
plenty that the CIA, FBI, DOJ, and national security officials have conspired to
overthrow him.
On July 21, I posted on my website a report on the discovery
by John Solomon of The Hill magazine that Lisa Page testified to a congressional
committee to the effect that the Russiagate probe conducted by Robert Mueller is
a cover-up operation to obscure the
criminal use of counterintelligence capabilities to spy on Trump’s
presidential campaign and then to sabotage Trump’s presidency.
The evidence is overwhelming that CIA director John Brennan,
FBI director James Comey, Robert Mueller, James Clapper, Andrew McCabe, Peter
Strzok, Lisa Page, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and the Democratic
National Committee are engaged in high treason against the American people and
the President of the United States and are actively engaged in a plot to
overthrow the President of the United States. Yet, the traitorous intelligence
officials retain their high security clearances and have not been indicted,
arrested, and put on trial for high treason. Rosenstein and Mueller haven’t even
been fired from their high positions where they continue to operate in behalf of
the overthrow plot.
It shows the untouchable power of the military/security
complex when its operatives are so far beyond the reach of law and
accountability that they can commit high treason with no consequences to
themselves.
The US presstitute media works full time to protect these
traitors, because the presstitutes hate Donald Trump and the Americans who
elected him much more than they love the US Constitution and the rule of law.
This makes the presstitutes accomplices to high treason and subject to arrest
and prosecution.
Even those who understand what is going on and are willing to
speak against it, such as former CIA official Ray McGovern and Senator Rand Paul
speak in muted terms. Senator Paul wants their security clearances withdrawn
because they are monetizing them in their roles of well-paid talking heads in
the presstitute media and may reveal classified information on the programs.
There is no evidence that Trump is a Russian agent. There is
enormous evidence that the above CIA, FBI, DOJ, and national security officials
are engaged in treason against the United States.
Yet, we hear only about the fake case that Trump is a Russian
agent. We hear nothing about the CIA/FBI/DOJ plot against the president of the
United States that is unfolding before our eyes in plain sight of even
insouciant Americans.
We also don’t hear anything about this.
This article was originally published at PaulCraigRoberts.org
on July 26, 2018.
(5) Trump should
nationalize Apple & other Globalist companies that offshore their
workers
Who Does America Belong to? Not to Americans.
By Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 2, 2018
Thomas Jefferson's prediction that central banking would
"deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless" is
coming true.
The housing market is now apparently turning down. Consumer
incomes are limited by jobs offshoring and the ability of employers to hold down
wages and salaries. The Federal Reserve seems committed to higher interest
rates—in my view to protect the exchange value of the US dollar on which
Washington’s power is based. The arrogant fools in Washington, with whom I spent
a quarter century, have, with their bellicosity and sanctions, encouraged
nations with independent foreign and economic policies to drop the use of the
dollar. This takes some time to accomplish, but Russia, China, Iran, and India
are apparently committed to dropping or reducing the use of the US dollar.
A drop in the world demand for dollars can be destabilizing
of the dollar’s value unless the central banks of Japan, UK, and EU continue to
support the dollar’s exchange value, either by purchasing dollars with their
currencies or by printing offsetting
amounts of their currencies to keep the dollar’s value stable. So far they
have been willing to do both. However, Trump’s criticisms of Europe has soured
Europe against Trump, with a corresponding weakening of the willingness to cover
for the US. Japan’s colonial status viv-a-vis the US since the Second World War
is being stressed by the hostility that Washington is introducing into Japan’s
part of the world. The orchestrated Washington tensions with North Korea and
China do not serve Japan, and those Japanese politicians who are not heavily on
the US payroll are aware that Japan is being put on the line for American, not
Japanese interests.
If all this leads, as is likely, to the rise of more
independence among Washington’s vassals, the vassals are likely to protect
themselves from the cost of their independence by removing themselves from the
dollar and payments mechanisms associated with the dollar as world currency.
This means a drop in the value of the dollar that the Federal Reserve would have
to prevent by raising interest rates on dollar investments in order to keep the
demand for dollars up sufficiently to protect its value.
As every realtor knows, housing prices boom when interest
rates are low, because the lower the rate the higher the price of the house that
the person with the mortgage can afford. But when interest rates rise, the lower
the price of the house that a buyer can afford.
If we are going into an era of higher interest rates, home
prices and sales are going to decline.
The “on the other hand” to this analysis is that if the
Federal Reserve loses control of the situation and the debts associated with the
current value of the US dollar become a problem that can collapse the system,
the Federal Reserve is likely to pump out enough new money to preserve the debt
by driving interest rates back to zero or negative.
Would this save or revive the housing market? Not if the
debt-burdened American people have no substantial increases in their real
income. Where are these increases likely to come from? Robotics are about to
take away the jobs not already lost to jobs offshoring. Indeed, despite
President Trump’s emphasis on ”bringing the jobs back,” Ford Motor Corp. has
just announced that it is moving the production of the Ford Focus from Michigan
to China.
Apparently it never occurs to the executives running
America’s offshored corporations that potential customers in America working in
part time jobs stocking shelves in Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, etc., will not
have enough money to purchase a Ford. Unlike Henry Ford, who had the
intelligence to pay workers good wages so they could buy Fords, the executives
of American companies today sacrifice their domestic market and the American
economy to their short-term ”performance bonuses” based on low foreign labor
costs.
What is about to happen in America today is that the middle
class, or rather those who were part of it as children and expected to join it,
are going to be driven into manufactured ”double-wide homes” or single trailers.
The MacMansions will be cut up into tenements. Even the high-priced rentals
along the Florida coast will find a drop in demand as real incomes continue to
fall. The $5,000-$20,000 weekly summer rental rate along Florida’s panhandle 30A
will not be sustainable. The speculators who are in over their heads in this
arena are due for a future shock.
For years I have reported on the monthly payroll jobs
statistics. The vast majority of new jobs are in lowly paid nontradable domestic
services, such as waitresses and bartenders, retail clerks, and ambulatory
health care services. In the payroll jobs report for June, for example, the new
jobs, if they actually exist, are concentrated in these sectors: administrative
and waste services, health care and social assistance, accommodation and food
services, and local government.
High productivity, high value-added manufactured jobs shrink
in the US as they are offshored to Asia. High productivity, high value-added
professional service jobs, such as research, design, software engineering,
accounting, legal research, are being
filled by offshoring or by foreigners brought into the US on work visas with
the fabricated and false excuse that there are no Americans qualified for the jobs.
See my book The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism.
America is a country hollowed out by the short-term greed of
the ruling class and its shills in the economics profession and in Congress.
Capitalism only works for the few. It no longer works for the many.
On national security grounds Trump should respond to Ford’s
announcement of offshoring the production of Ford Focus to China by
nationalizing Ford. Michigan’s payrolls and tax base will decline and employment
in China will rise. We are witnessing a major US corporation enabling China’s
rise over the United States. Among the external costs of Ford’s contribution to
China’s GDP is Trump’s increased US military budget to counter the rise in
China’s power.
Trump should also
nationalize Apple, Nike, Levi, and all the rest of the offshored US global corporations who
have put the interest of a few people above the interests of the American work
force and the US economy. There is no other way to get the jobs back. Of course,
if Trump did this, he would be assassinated.
America is ruled by a tiny percentage of people who
constitute a treasonous class. These people have the money to purchase the
government, the media, and the economics profession that shills for them. This
greedy traitorous interest group must be dealt with or the United States of
America and the entirety of its peoples are lost.
In her latest blockbuster book, Collusion: How Central
Bankers Rigged the World, Nomi Prins documents how central banks and
international monetary institutions have used the 2008 financial crisis to
manipulate markets and the fiscal policies of governments to benefit the
super-rich.
These manipulations are used to enable the looting of
countries such as Greece and Portugal by the large German and Dutch banks and
the enrichment via inflated financial asset prices of shareholders at the
expense of the general population.
One would think that repeated financial crises would
undermine the power of financial interests, but the facts are otherwise. As long
ago as November 21, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to Col. House
that:
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a
financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the
days of Andrew Jackson.”
Thomas Jefferson said that “banking institutions are more
dangerous to our liberties than standing armies” and that “if the American
people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by
inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property
until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.”
The shrinkage of the US middle class is evidence that
Jefferson’s prediction is coming true.
This article was originally published at PaulCraigRoberts.org
on July 31, 2018.
