Master of Distraction

Everyone here is talking about why John Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA. Disgraceful!

Donald Trump, Twitter

 

I do not believe for a second that 'everyone' is talking about that.  I suspect you could count the number of people talking about it on one hand and still have four fingers remaining.  This is a silly claim.  However, it puts Podesta and the DNC back in the news.  The President has tweeted and that is automatically newsworthy.  Looking at it from that perspective, it's plain wrong.  Podesta had no role over the DNC server; he was Hillary's campaign manager and not in any way in charge of the DNC server.  Debbie Wasserman Schultz was in charge of the DNC when it was hacked by Russians or others.  The released emails showed that the DNC had put a thumb on the scale for Hillary in the primaries, not the sort of news that pleased Bernie supporters.  The DNC did not allow the FBI to examine the server but instead hired a company with no discernible biases:

 

The Russian expat leading the fight to protect America: In a war against hackers, Dmitri Alperovitch and CrowdStrike are our special forces (and Putin's worst nightmare).

Esquire

 

Why have US law enforcement investigate a crime at taxpayer expense when we can spend donor money to have a private company reach a convenient conclusion for us?  What happened with Podesta is that he fell for a phishing scheme and accidentally granted access to his email to another hacker, perhaps Russia.  Those emails exposed collusion between various media sources and the Clinton Campaign.  The CIA has nothing to do with all this and it is baffling why he mentions it.

 

And there you have the crazy like a fox brilliance of the tweet.  In exposing Trump's apparent ignorance of the issue, the DNC and John Podesta are again painted in a negative light.  While the left keeps the Russian collusion story alive, Trump keeps the DNC and Podesta email story alive.

 

Meanwhile, while the media gape at his latest tweet, Trump is meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit!

Corruption on the Ballot

The Most Damaging WikiLeaks has compiled a list of 100 most damaging revelations.  So far!  I do not doubt that it could get worse.  There is a lot of criminality exposed here along with buckets of 'intent' for FBI Director James Comey.  So much intent!

 

Though I have read through the 100, let's just stick to some of the really egregious ones:

 

1. Obama knew about the server all along.  Yes, though he claimed in 2015 that he learned about the server from the news, he had several email chains - using a pseudonym - that were found on Hillary's server.  The President and the Secretary of State were communicating on a server that would avoid the record keeping laws.

6. Unaware and compliant citizens.  I have harped on this from time to time and it turns out that the campaign admits this has been a strategy all along.  Those ignorant of US history and the Constitution are far more likely to vote against the limited government that was established.

68. John Podesta, who had no government position and no security clearance, was sent top secret information.  That would be a felony.

69. John Podesta used the Amtrak wifi to access his email.  That would be a very insecure connection.  This is worse because - as we learn in point 40 - Podesta's password was p@ssw0rd.  Hillary will make him head of CIA, I'm sure.

75. The Iran Deal is admitted to be terrible that will likely lead to a nuclear war in the Persian Gulf.

78. Campaign finance law only applies to Republicans.

There are certain themes that are repeated.  Every other damaging leak appears to be collusion with the media.  The media has donated 19 to 1 in favor of Hillary and, oddly enough, 91% of stories on Trump are negative.  Huh.  Strange.  Many show that Hillary has public positions for the 'unaware and compliant citizenry' and a private position for the donors.  Therefore, she may say she is against TPP at a rally but for it at a private fundraiser.

Almost any one of these 100 leaks should be a major scandal.  Any 5 of them should cripple a campaign.  Any 10 of them should ruin a politician's career.  All 100 should result in jail time for someone.  And there is more to come.

A vote for Hillary is a vote for corrupt and dishonest government.

Polls to Bludgeon the Voters

WikiLeaks just keeps revealing the corruption of the system.  Here is an email chain where it is made clear that polling exists to shape public opinion, not measure it.  Intentional over-sampling to 'convince' voters that their candidate is way behind - and thus depress that candidates eventual votes - is common practice.  Not only that, but the Clinton Campaign is offering pointers on how to rig the polls for maximum effect.  Of course, this isn't new.  The media called the state of Florida for Al Gore while polls were still open (different time zone) in the Republican-leaning panhandle of the state.  How many votes were suppressed by doing that?  Was that accidental?  Had the state not been prematurely called, would we have completely avoided the fiasco that followed?

WikiLeaks has also shown that the Mainstream Media is all-in for Hillary.  The Center for Public Integrity found that 96% of the money given to campaigns by journalists has gone to the Clinton campaign.  That their reporting and polling is beneficial to the Democrats therefore comes as no surprise.  It has long been so but only now has it been exposed so clearly.  And yet the media dodges stories that should be HUGELY newsworthy because those very stories reflect so poorly on the news media.