….and the Democrat National Committee-The Democrat Party apparatus-has been caught using donor Dollars to Collude with Russian Intelligence to attack a domestic political opponent (me). The FBI has no leadership. The Director is protecting the same gang…..that tried to….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 13, 2019
Category: Scary shit
Obvious enough, right?
But the details are absolutely terrifying. Author Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Big Short, Liar’s Poker) went around the government to study the so-called Deep State, and this book “The Fifth Risk,” details what he found.
Two things stand out as terrifying:
1. The non-existent transition: “Lewis describes the scene inside the Commerce Department the Monday after the election, where ‘dozens of civil servants sat all day waiting to deliver briefings’ to Trump’s transition team about their agencies’ role and responsibilities, ‘that would, in the end, never be heard.'”
2. The disappearing facts: “A lot of government data is now disappearing from government websites, data on climate change at the EPA, on animal abuse at the Department of Agriculture, on violent crime at the Department of Justice. ‘Under each act of data suppression,’ Lewis writes, ‘usually lay a narrow commercial motive: a gun lobbyist, a coal company, a poultry company.'”
After the best week ever for @realDonaldTrump – no obstruction, no collusion, NYT admits @BarackObama did spy on his campaign, & the economy is soaring. I now support reparations-Trump should have 2 yrs added to his 1st term as pay back for time stolen by this corrupt failed coup
— Jerry Falwell (@JerryFalwellJr) May 5, 2019
Now if you take Trump at his word, he (and apparently Falwell) believe that this is how the coup was supposed to work: The Deputy Attorney General, Republican Rod Rosenstein, a Trump appointee, appointed Republican Robert Mueller to be a special counsel in a scheme to remove Trump and install Republican Mike Pence as President.
And the mastermind behind that is … ?