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One wonders why a successful business or enterprise would have a reason to hire a “fixer.” You could poll the executives of the largest US corporations and companies and not find one fixer that needed to be retained do administer company business. The smart business people would subcontract the messy stuff (Facebook paying to have false dirt spread about George Soros comes to mind). For small endeavors, only those who intend to do bad things or cover them up, employ a Fixer. Criminal organizations for instance have them on the payroll. Even Mr McCarthy analogizes using figures in the Godfather. These are not good people. Where there is smoke, there may not always be fire. But where there is a criminal organization, there are always criminals.

.. We have just scratched the surface when it comes to all the “fixes” that Cohen provided for the president. We know about payoffs to porn stars.We know about trips to Russia during the campaign to makes deals for a Trump Tower near the Kremlin (with a $50 million penthouse for Putin to seal the deal). Soon, when the Trump tax returns (“So complicated”) are requested by the House Tax Committee, the story will get even more sorted.

Andrew McCarthy is right about one thing. Mueller is preparing a report. But he has also handed off part of that report to the Southern District of New York. There, they can begin a criminal case; a case that Trump can’t use his Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card to keep his subordinates quiet. This report by Mueller is just the roadmap, one where others will soon follow up.

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.. The Clintons had, and perhaps still have, the bulk of the FBI and Justice Department running and blocking for them. That and the media support gave it an air of “officialdom” the Trump team does not have. The Trump team was all private people, not government fixers and perhaps. In other words, the core of the Deep State. 

.. Tra747

.. Fair is fair…a special prosecutor should be unleashed on the Clintons and associates…guarantee if they spent $40 million they would find something more than process crimes..

.. Trump was elected despite having no friends among the established major figures of either party; he was nominated and elected despite the disdain of many of the elite information organs of the Right. He has far fewer natural vocal allies in conservative circles than any Republican president. It ought make serious conservatives take a second look at their virtuous opposition to him now that it is clear that many of the powers of the State were set in motion against his campaign even before his election and these officials—and the Left—have been tireless, since before his inauguration, in assaulting the legitimacy of his presidency.

Because he campaigned without Republican elites in his inner circle—most of whom would have nothing to do with him—and because he to this day has few strong allies among the Republican establishment, those who have been working most assiduously to destroy this presidency have understood from the outset that without having a firm foundation of support in DC itself, Trump is at special risk.

.. Certain writers at NRO and certain Commenters here are among the far too many conservatives willing to sacrifice this presidency because they despise the man whom people had the temerity to elect. They are determined to separate the rectitude of their judgment about political matters from that of the hoi polloi: the Mueller investigation is, for them, a necessary cleansing agent. Thus they latch onto a vague unsettling that arises from the sordid iniquities of the president, permitting them to set aside elementary constitutional concerns about placing a presidential administration from its inception under an investigative cloud without just cause.

 

.. APASSYN Plymouth mtng, PA

I adovocated against Clinton corruption, donated monies to support Republican candidates running against Clinton and Obama and have worked for conservative candidates. On a modest salary, I gift 10 members of my family the National Review to help promote Conservative politics, ideas, and values. I am also a life time member of the NRA and regularly donate money to pro-life organizations. Now, your boy Trump in contrast gave the maximum amount under the law to the Clinton’s presidential and senatorial campaigns in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2006. In 2008, Trump in 2008 gave the maximum amount under the law to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and claimed she would be a great president. As recently as 2013 Trump called for restrictive gun laws including confiscations. The Trump family has given $100,000’s to the murderers at Planned Parenthood, because being pimps, eugenicsists and whore mongers that is to be expected. In 1998 when I was advocating for Bill Clinton’s impeachment and removal from office, Trump defended Clinton saying his accusers were “fatties” and “groupies” and that Clinton should “do sophisticated women, like Hollywood actresses.”

The only good thing which can be said about the Trump presidency is because of his rank incompetence, rather little change whether constitutional, statutory, and administrative has happened.

With that said Trump governs to the left of the Obama and Clinton Administration with tariffs which if enacted will led to the greatest increases in government regulations since the 1970’s, Walter Mondale style Industrial Policy, $trillion dollar deficits, and dangerous 1939 isolationism which puts the people and interest of the American Republic at risk. 

As far as 2020, the Trump minority coalition of 46% is literally dying off, and the voters replacing them despise Trump and the right wing entertainer establishment as frauds and racists.

If you do not want the politics of the whole of the USA to go the way of California you need to reject all the lies, Trump and Hannity have others told you and return to the Conservative principles of men like Barry Goldwater, Milton Friedman, Jack Kemp, and Ronald Reagan.