Despite Coronavirus, the Stories that Just Won’t Go Away
With the month of April waning away, we are reminded of all that happened before the Chinese created and facilitated the spread of coronavirus throughout the world, bringing our nation to a virtual halt. Before we suddenly saw our jobs evaporate into thin air, before we were told we cannot go to the beach, before we were forced to wear masks across our faces, as though we were disguised (take your pick) as surgeons or outlaws in a nationwide costume ball, there was a country awash in the drama of another presidential election.
As we recall, the current President survived almost four years of harassment, not to mention surveillance, by the Obama Administration, including the FBI and the Justice Department, among others. Following Donald Trump’s election, we witnessed a bevy of Obama holdovers during the first year or two of Trump’s presidency, along with globalist saboteurs like former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former Chief of Staff John Kelly, plot out Trump’s demise while supposedly serving the new President. Couple all of that with an unceasing effort by the media and Democrats in the House and Senate, along with an inherently corrupt Mueller Commission- one staffed with none but Hillary supporters- to find some reason, any reason, to impeach a duly-elected President of the United States, in what amounted to a concerted and coordinated attempt at coup d’état. That the Trump presidency was able to survive all of that was and is quite remarkable in and of itself- and all of that was before the President was forced to shut down the greatest economy the world had ever seen…
On the Democrat front, we saw a labored and coordinated effort to select a presidential nominee who would guarantee a place at the table for both the Clintons and the Obamas. In order to do this, they had to select a well-known but thoroughly empty “suit,” who could bumble and stumble his way towards a nomination already orchestrated and coordinated well in advance, by the powers to be in the DNC. Joe Biden, the former Vice-President and one-time Senator from Delaware, proved to be exactly who they were all looking for. Never mind the “creepy” Joe, who raised even the most partisan eyebrows with the way he would routinely invade the personal space of girls and young women, sniffing their hair and planting unwelcomed kisses on the sides of their necks and the backs of their heads. To them, the Clintons, the Obamas and the DNC, they found their perfect “dupe” in Joe Biden. All they had to do was get Bernie Sanders out of the way- easy enough, as it had been, four years before- and engineer some campaign withdrawals both before and after Super Tuesday’s primaries and voila, their man is (forgive the term) “in, like Flynn.”
So, all of these stories seemingly faded into the sunset with the onset of coronavirus. Presented with a whole new opportunity to malign and besmirch President Trump for the way he and his administration have managed the pandemic, all of the talk about the past sins of the Obama Administration, the FBI and the intelligence community seemed to subside, just as all of the suspicions surrounding Biden’s nomination seemed like yesterday’s news, destined for the ash heap of history. Efforts to impeach the President have continued in the House, unabated, as the only other thing the House has been able to do is to load their own pet projects into needed funding measures and other forms of relief for the American people- even causing these relief efforts to be needlessly delayed. After all, the Speaker of the House, one Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) must be given an opportunity to show off her ice cream freezer. Along with coronavirus arrived a whole new opportunity to launch investigations, designed to bring down the Trump presidency, if there is anyone who wants to know the true motivations of Democrats in Congress…
Yet, the stories about corruption in the Obama Administration and concerns about Joe Biden regressing from a well-known propensity to gaff, to obvious signs of old age dementia, though seldom mentioned, never really went away. Such stories were merely set aside- just long enough for the media to concentrate its efforts on bringing down the President in the wake of coronavirus. Behind the scenes, however, investigations undertaken by Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham have continued to reveal the great extent to which rogue senior-level officials in the FBI and Justice Department sought to defraud the FISA court with bogus documents, deny civil and constitutional rights to Carter Page, and commit criminal conspiracy to frame Michael Flynn. Flynn, a retired Lieutenant General with thirty-three years of service to the United States Army, was set up by former FBI Director James Comey and his underlings, just as the Trump Administration was getting under way. Denying General Flynn the right to legal counsel, agents from the FBI interviewed him in a coordinated effort to force a bogus confession out of the retired general, so that the President would have no choice but to fire him.
Documents released yesterday by the Justice Department, confirm that this was a set-up from the get-go, but not before Flynn expended all of his own personal wealth just to fund his own legal defense, for an indictment so fraudulently sought and an investigation which should have never taken place.
So much for how Comey and his henchmen, not to mention former President Obama, show their respect to a man for more than three decades of service to the Armed Forces of the United States… Regardless, this is just the tip of the iceberg that is slowly, but inexorably rising to the surface and exposing just how deeply and how high up corruption in the Obama Administration reached, during the attempt to bring down Trump and his presidency.
Now, back to Joe Biden…
Back in 1993, the then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) had a staffer, one Tara Reade, who was allegedly and sexually assaulted by the Senator in the halls of the United States Capitol. Reade went so far as to file a police report following the incident, but then failed to pursue prosecution against the Senator and report his behavior to the press, out of some sort of strange loyalty for the man who had assaulted her. Soon afterwards, during a call into the CNN broadcast Larry King Live, Reade’s late mother purportedly referred to the incident, without naming names, when Larry King was interviewing the late Senator Howard Baker (R-TN) on the subject of senatorial misconduct.
Now, there have been no less than four corroborations to Reade’s story. Backed up by the fact that the incident was first reported to the authorities back in 1993, the former Delaware Senator’s response to these charges have conveniently been locked away in a vault at the University of Delaware, along with all of the other papers belonging to the former Vice-President and one-time Senator, until such time as Biden authorizes their release.
Not surprisingly, all of those Democrats who were so quick to convict Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his Senate nomination hearings, on spurious allegations of rape made by Christine Blasey-Ford which supposedly occurred more than three decades before, have now jumped to the defense of the former Vice-President, insisting that he is innocent and that Reade’s allegations are not to be believed. Unlike Blasey-Ford, who had no corroborating witnesses to her own allegations, Reade has four- in addition to the time-stamped recording of her mother’s phone call to Larry King twenty-seven years ago.
So, the moral to that story is simply this…
…if you are a Democrat like Bill Clinton or Joe Biden, or your last name is Kennedy, accusations of sexual assault and/or forcible rape are either excused, ignored or denied outright, in spite of very credible and documented evidence that these sexual crimes occurred…
…but, if you are a Republican like Donald Trump, or are connected with him in any way (or appointed by him to the nation’s highest court), no accusation of wrongdoing- no matter how fantastical or suspicious in its nature- is to be questioned on its merits or validity.
The problem of course for Biden, and his supporters, is that these accusations by Tara Reade are not going away, despite the abject failure of the media to pose the question of Reade’s allegations to the former Vice-President and current candidate, himself. While his campaign has vehemently denied these allegations outright, the candidate himself has remained mum- not that he has been asked directly, since hiding out with the Mrs. in their Delaware home.
Assuming that Biden is still nominated for his party’s top spot when Democrats convene in August (and that it a BIG assumption), he will have to be confronted with the allegation, sooner or later- either by the media who desperately wants him to win in November- or by his Republican opponent on a debate stage. That the Democrats would ever allow the bumbling Biden anywhere near a debate stage with a President Trump is laughable, because doing so would risk a fifty-state sweep in the general election, once the voters see first-hand, just what they would be getting with a Biden presidency.
As to the early polls of this year’s presidential election, the problem with pollsters… you know, the ones that told us back in 2016 that:
a) Donald Trump had no chance to win the Republican nomination;
b) Donald Trump had no “path” to win the electoral college;
c) and that a majority of voters thought Hillary Clinton was more trustworthy than Donald Trump ;
…now would have us believe that Joe Biden beats Donald Trump across the board… and (get this) that voters would have more confidence in Joe Biden to manage the coronavirus pandemic than they do President Trump…
We would sooner believe an invitation to dine with President and Mrs. Trump, privately at the White House, before I would believe that Biden is leading Trump, anywhere… or on anything…
If you believe otherwise, then please stop watching television, place your own head deep down into your own toilet, and pull the handle…
…for maybe, just maybe, doing so will flush such fake news from out of your brains…
-Drew Nickell, 30 April 2020
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