Trump Holds All the Cards

President Trump holds all the cards, friends.  And he is playing them in such a way that he has every DC Democrat, and the cabal they represent, panicking.  The craziness of the Dems with respect to the Kavanaugh Supreme Court appointment, personified by the parading of female sexual assault accusers, is a sign of desperation.  The Democrats have nothing else.  This is simply a stalling tactic.  They introduced one accuser well after the Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, the effect of which stalled the confirmation vote for at least ten days.  Because it worked, last Sunday evening, after a deal was set for accuser #1 to testify five days hence, others even less credible came forward.  Let’s see…two accusers at ten days a piece…that’s twenty days.  A few more and the Dems get past the midterms.  You see how desperate they are?  And each day is one more that the Democrats can hope Trump’s declassification of FISA-related documents can also be prevented from divulging to the world the absolute corruption of high FBI and DOJ officials, which will become known as those unredacted documents meet the light of day.

Trump's Hand Can't be Beat

Last week the New York Times reported that shortly after taking the job of Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein proposed among a group of high-ranking DOJ officials that he ‘wear a wire” while meeting with the President, ostensibly to trap Trump into making statements Rosenstein could use to push a case for Trump to be removed from office via provisions of the 25th Amendment.  There is a term for that.  It is “sedition.”  If Rosenstein meant what he said, and it is reported that others took him seriously, he is guilty of sedition.  The idea that a subordinate would even suggest a plan to remove a sitting President from office would be a firing offense, would it not?  Many are wondering why Trump has not fired Rosenstein (as of this writing) as he did former FBI Director Comey.  The answer is two-fold. 

First, firing Rosenstein would bring about yet another orchestration of stalling tactics by the DC Democrats.  But secondly, were Trump to fire Rosenstein, the next in charge, Solicitor General Noel Francisco, would automatically become his replacement.  Were Rosenstein to resign, however, Trump, through Attorney General Jeff Sessions, could name an “acting” Deputy Attorney General of his choosing, an individual who could occupy that seat for 210 Days without being confirmed by the Senate.  That individual would oversee the Mueller witch hunt. 

But Trump wins either way.  When the DOJ (obviously in the person of Rosenstein) and two major US allies (UK and Australia) objected to Trump declassifying the FISA-related documents, Trump took the review of those documents away from Rosenstein and handed that responsibility to Inspector General Horowitz, an individual universally well-respected.  Horowitz will report back on any national security concerns that might result from declassification.  Americans should wonder how the UK and Australia would know what might be contained in various US classified documents, and be so concerned with their declassification, unless they had been involved in the activities those documents describe…

Late last week, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, tweeted that releasing the FISA documents would in the words of certain FBI/DOJ officials, “cross a red line.”  Subsequently, responding to the Times article, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned Trump that the story should not be used as a pretext for firing Rosenstein in order to replace him with an individual who would, “allow the president to interfere with the Special Counsel’s investigation.”  You see, because Rosenstein appointed Special Counsel Mueller to investigate Trump collusion with Russia, unless Rosenstein remains to protect that appointment, a new “acting” Deputy AG could disband the probe.  So, firing Rosenstein is that act which, in Schiff’s terms, “crosses a red line.”  In effect, however, Schiff and Schumer are begging Trump to fire Rosenstein.  The leak to the NYT gives Trump every reason to do so.  Were Trump to fire Rosenstein, who has much more support in the Senate (confirmed 94-6) than AG Jeff Sessions (confirmed 52-47), an automatic firestorm would erupt in the Congress, generating political energy they hope would not only deflate Trump’s power to keep the Kavanaugh confirmation on track, but also hand the Dems an issue to trumpet in the upcoming midterms. 

Recall last week I wrote, “You will see the removal from office, or at least a tolerated recusal by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the author of the Mueller Russian witch hunt.”  Did I mean that President Trump would fire Rosenstein?  No, he doesn’t have to.   The declassification of the FISA-related documents, heavily redacted by Rosenstein’s own Sharpie, will aptly demonstrate to the American people that Rosenstein is himself is a material player and witness in the Mueller investigation begun under his authority.  Rosenstein is disqualified from any investigation that includes himself.  Foundation for that investigation resulted from Rosenstein’s own endorsement of a known-false “Russian dossier” created by former UK intelligence agent Christopher Steele.   By his signature on an application to renew the FISA surveillance warrant on former Trump campaign aid Carter Page, Rosenstein knowingly endorsed the dossier’s false findings, and used false findings to parley the FISA Court approval of Page surveillance into justification to begin the Mueller Special Counsel investigation.  Once declassified, the unredacted FISA-related documents will demonstrate Rosenstein’s active participation in an attempted to overthrow the Trump presidency, acting alongside various other high-ranking DOJ/FBI officials already removed from office.  The resulting firestorm will require Rosenstein to resign on his own.  So you see, Trump, indeed, holds all the cards.