The Morning Briefing: I Hope Trump Can Resuscitate Accountability in the Political Class

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Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Waszance felt that he got the most out of the drum circle experience when there was a spreadable cheese snack offering involved.

It wasn't even a week ago that I wrote that the news about who the major players in the Russia collusion hoax was escalating quickly. Little did I know that we were pretty much in the "calm before the storm" phase at the time. The information flow has been like getting hit with firehoses from all angles since then.

What we have been learning isn't exactly a surprise to those of us on this side of the aisle. It's not like any of us have ever been fans of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, or any of the other Hitler Youth who orchestrated the attempt to undermine President Trump's first term. We're all painfully familiar with the arrogance of that crowd, too. They almost certainly thought that they'd never be found out.

We are apparently going to find out even more this week. This is from something that Matt wrote over the weekend:

CIA Director John Ratcliffe revealed Sunday that explosive new evidence tied to the Russia collusion hoax is about to be declassified—and it points directly at Hillary Clinton and key Obama-era intelligence officials. During an appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, Ratcliffe confirmed that the classified annex to Special Counsel John Durham’s report will soon be made public, and what it contains could dramatically shift the narrative on the origins of Crossfire Hurricane.
“And what that intelligence shows, Maria, is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but part of it was an FBI plan to, uh, be an accelerant to that fake Steele dossier, to those fake Russia collusion claims by pouring oil on the fire, by amplifying the lie and burying the truth of … what Hillary Clinton was up to,” Ratcliffe said.

We had a good go (I've been watching way too much British television) at Hillary last week, too. Matt also wrote about information that implicates John Bolton's involvement on the wrong side of the mess when he was Trump's national security advisor. There's a perfect snapshot of the difference between many of those in the Trump 45 administration versus the locked-in team that is the Trump 47 group. The loyalty litmus test that the media hacks whine about so much is what has made the last six months such a success.

For the zillionth time since the TDS drama queens began rending their garments almost a decade ago, we're finding out that we were right about something. As I have written many times, most of these "I told you so" victories have been rather pyrrhic. Being able to give the lefties an "AHA!" on X really doesn't do much for me.

There do seem to be more actionable legal consequences with the Russia collusion travesty. I say "seem" because I have no legal expertise. Like most of you, I have read a lot in the last week, however. People who do have expertise have indicated that, at the very least, John Brennan's goose may be ripe for the cooking. While Brennan is one of the most execrable people to plague American politics in the last several decades, he's not much of a prize when His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama and Granny Maojackets are also in the mix.

I don't think we're going to see Obama perp-walked, but I would like to see Hillary Clinton's already-tarnished legacy take a humiliating legal hit or two. If Brennan is the most vulnerable, the Dems will gladly offer him up if it will keep Barack and Hillary safe. My big hope at the moment is that the "Brennan as sacrificial lamb" ploy won't save Hillary from, at the very least, some humiliation and embarrassment.

While I have no insider knowledge, I do get the feeling that President Trump and his very loyal team aren't going so hard on this just so they can have a few press conferences that make Hillary yell at the cook. I feel some focus here. Having written that, I think we're all pretty jaded about the Beltway elite facing real consequences. I mean, things have been pretty lax in that regard ever since Teddy Kennedy left Mary Jo Kopechne at the bottom of a lake, then went back to his hotel for a drink and a shower before he let the cops know about it.

For those who are new here, I'm never letting that one go.

President Trump and the team he's surrounded himself with are very purpose-driven. They're not here for the spotlight; they're here to get this country back on track and, hopefully, keep it there. Getting to the bottom of the Russia collusion hoax isn't, as the Trump-haters in the MSM put it, "retribution"; it's about justice. It's all the more important given that retribution was what the Biden people were calling justice.

Like all of you, my friends, I'm more than a little skeptical about accountability returning en masse to America's political upper echelon. The idea of it isn't completely dead, but it's been on life support for a very long time. It will take a miracle worker to keep it from flatlining.

You know, we might just have one of those handy right now.

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