Mueller's Leak: Deep State Doubles Down On Collusion With Democrats

Russia Investigation: We assume it was someone on Robert Mueller's Russia investigation team who leaked to the media a list of dozens of questions that he wants to ask President Trump. The only question is, why?

More than four dozen questions were handed over to the New York Times that appear to be questions that Mueller delivered to Trump's lawyers to give the president an idea of what he would face.

As the Times notes: "The open-ended queries appear to be an attempt to penetrate the president's thinking, to get at the motivation behind some of his most combative Twitter posts and to examine his relationships with his family and his closest advisers. They deal chiefly with the president's high-profile firings of the FBI director and his first national security adviser, his treatment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and a 2016 Trump Tower meeting between campaign officials and Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton."

Whew. Quite a bit there. But please notice: Only one of the key topics mentioned involves the alleged Russian-Trump campaign collusion, which many delusional Democrats insist denied Hillary Clinton the presidency. But that was supposedly the reason for the entire Russia investigation. What gives?

It shows pretty conclusively that the Mueller investigation, which started out as an attempt to end Russian cyber-meddling in U.S. elections, has now become a fishing expedition — one whose sole purpose seems to be to catch the biggest fish of all, Donald Trump, for doing something, anything, that a special counsel could deem a criminal offense.

It also shows desperation. As Thomas Gallatin of the Patriot Post notes, "This is now the second time the Mueller team has leaked significant information to the press." The first was in October, when Mueller's team leaked that it would charge several individuals in the investigation with crimes.

Trump was, as usual, at his sarcastic best in tweeting a response: "So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were 'leaked' to the media. No questions on Collusion. Oh, I see ... you have a made up, phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. Nice! It would seem very hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened! Witch Hunt!"

Mueller's Shift In Focus

What could Mueller and his team be up to? Obviously, they want to keep the dying embers of the investigation alive by focusing on obstruction, rather than the original and entirely spurious allegation of collusion, a crime found nowhere in U.S. law.

Famed Harvard legal scholar and trial attorney Alan Dershowitz said Mueller's list looks like it was intended as a trap for the loquacious Trump.

"They are really designed to let him ramble and talk, and I suspect that's the strategy of the special counsel because they know that may be President Trump's weakness," Dershowitz said on CNN.

It's pretty clear this has been a put-up job from the very beginning, with inside operators at both the Obama Justice Department and the Obama FBI assiduously protecting Hillary Clinton from charges for her violations of U.S. law with her unsecured email server, while launching a sleazy internal investigation and counteraction against Donald Trump funded by Democratic operatives and left-wing billionaires.

As we've said before, it all has the stink of a Banana Republic to it, the kind of place where the rule of law no longer matters. Venezuela on the Potomac.

Never-Ending Investigation

That could be seen in last week's revelation that the Fusion GPS investigation of Trump, largely based on the "Trump dossier" assembled by former British spy Christopher Steele and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, didn't end after the election. In fact, as the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross reported, "A group of wealthy donors from New York and California have forked out $50 million to fund a Russia investigation being conducted by Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS and a former staffer for Dianne Feinstein."

That devastating bit of news came from the House Intelligence Committee's recently released report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race.

So what is one to make of all this? Clearly, there is a long-standing effort among the Hillary Clinton Democrats and their wealthy progressive allies to sabotage Trump's presidency and to bring a never-ending investigation of all his various affairs, both business and personal.

This effort does not come from the highest motives. It is a base effort to overturn the legitimate results of a national presidential election through a nonstop media campaign coupled with continuing investigations on multiple fronts to find something with which to delegitimize Trump and eventually remove him from office. It's about power, not ideals.

It is, in short, a kind of bloodless political coup, acted out in slow motion. Its intent is to disenfranchise an entire nation and to cause a permanent, irreparable political split that will lead to turmoil and perhaps even violence.

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