Yesterday brought more moves by the Democrats and their media allies to attempt to discredit the election results. It's truly disgraceful.
First, Nancy Pelosi came out for an independent commission to investigate whether or not the Russians influenced the election. That's a rather big stretch. Remember, the whole hysteria is based upon supposed anonymous statements that the CIA has concluded that the Russians were trying to help Trump win. Those unsourced claims about the CIA view are contradicted by the public statements of the head of all intelligence, the Director of National Intelligence, who testified to Congress that no such conclusion could be made due to lack of any evidence of it. In other words, the guy to whom the CIA reports says that the positions attributed to unnamed sources in the CIA are wrong. In addition, the FBI has concluded that the supposed CIA position is wrong. And to top this all off, if there really were proof that the Russians did do this, there would have been some response from president Obama. After all, the hacks of the DNC and the Clinton campaign happened many months before the actual election; we all remember the uproar over them at the Democrats' convention last summer. So why the hysteria now? Is it all just because the Democrats can't deal with defeat?
Pelosi knows there won't be an independent commission to investigate this mess. President Trump is not going to appoint such a group. Congress is not going to fund such a group. Without some sort of governmental backing, the commission would be meaningless; it couldn't get witnesses to appear or even get its hands on the relevant documents. It certainly would not be made privy to classified information. That means that the Pelosi call for a commission is just more political theater. It's designed to cast doubt on the legitimacy of Trump's victory.
Meanwhile, the mainstream media is moving to do the same thing. The New York Times is busy comparing the whole thing to Watergate. Now it is true that every time there is any chance to take a swing at something affecting Republicans, the Times compares it to Watergate. Still, this is the first time I can remember the Times trotting out its Watergate claims for something that the current evidence indicates didn't even happen.
Then there's the move by some electors to seek an immediate briefing of what, if anything, the CIA and FBI have found on the subject. The White House properly pointed out that most, if not all, of the electors do not have security clearances, so there is no way they could be shown classified information. There is also no way that the security clearances could be put in place prior to the date next week when the electors vote. In other words, this is more meaningless political theater. Further, all but one of the electors calling for this briefing are Democrats. I doubt that they are planning to change their votes away from Hillary Clinton. And don't forget that the elector leading this move for a briefing is from California and just happens to be Nancy Pelosi's daughter.
This is truly disgraceful. There is not even a claim by any of these groups that Trump was involved in any way with the Russians. Using the supposed CIA position which has been rejected by the other intelligence agencies to attack Trump is a very dangerous thing to do.
First, Nancy Pelosi came out for an independent commission to investigate whether or not the Russians influenced the election. That's a rather big stretch. Remember, the whole hysteria is based upon supposed anonymous statements that the CIA has concluded that the Russians were trying to help Trump win. Those unsourced claims about the CIA view are contradicted by the public statements of the head of all intelligence, the Director of National Intelligence, who testified to Congress that no such conclusion could be made due to lack of any evidence of it. In other words, the guy to whom the CIA reports says that the positions attributed to unnamed sources in the CIA are wrong. In addition, the FBI has concluded that the supposed CIA position is wrong. And to top this all off, if there really were proof that the Russians did do this, there would have been some response from president Obama. After all, the hacks of the DNC and the Clinton campaign happened many months before the actual election; we all remember the uproar over them at the Democrats' convention last summer. So why the hysteria now? Is it all just because the Democrats can't deal with defeat?
Pelosi knows there won't be an independent commission to investigate this mess. President Trump is not going to appoint such a group. Congress is not going to fund such a group. Without some sort of governmental backing, the commission would be meaningless; it couldn't get witnesses to appear or even get its hands on the relevant documents. It certainly would not be made privy to classified information. That means that the Pelosi call for a commission is just more political theater. It's designed to cast doubt on the legitimacy of Trump's victory.
Meanwhile, the mainstream media is moving to do the same thing. The New York Times is busy comparing the whole thing to Watergate. Now it is true that every time there is any chance to take a swing at something affecting Republicans, the Times compares it to Watergate. Still, this is the first time I can remember the Times trotting out its Watergate claims for something that the current evidence indicates didn't even happen.
Then there's the move by some electors to seek an immediate briefing of what, if anything, the CIA and FBI have found on the subject. The White House properly pointed out that most, if not all, of the electors do not have security clearances, so there is no way they could be shown classified information. There is also no way that the security clearances could be put in place prior to the date next week when the electors vote. In other words, this is more meaningless political theater. Further, all but one of the electors calling for this briefing are Democrats. I doubt that they are planning to change their votes away from Hillary Clinton. And don't forget that the elector leading this move for a briefing is from California and just happens to be Nancy Pelosi's daughter.
This is truly disgraceful. There is not even a claim by any of these groups that Trump was involved in any way with the Russians. Using the supposed CIA position which has been rejected by the other intelligence agencies to attack Trump is a very dangerous thing to do.
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