An Uneasy Development....

We are witnessing a change in the direction of the administration’s defense of the probes taking place into the Russia scandal.  It is not a reassuring change at all.  In fact it is a rather nefarious effort to discredit the Mueller investigation being undertaken by not only the administration, but by Republican congressmen in US Senate and House.  All you had to do was listen to Trump in Pensacola on Saturday at a rally for Roy Moore.  He repeated over and over that "the system is rigged, the system is rigged, but we are going to fix it!"  Get ready--It is Trump's new mantra!

As more and more details emerge that confirm suspicions of collusion by the Trump Campaign, and lies told to just about everyone about multiple and frequent connections and communications with Russian Intelligence as agents of Putin’s Russia, the only defense possible is to discredit the system, the investigators and the FBI.  This is a truly scurrilous development!

Frankly, from all outward appearances, the FBI and Mueller’s team have been carrying out a careful, thorough detailed investigation that seems well organized and planned.  Despite accusations from Republicans, who apparently will do anything to deny the actual truth about what is being revealed, the investigative team seems to be unbiased and scrupulously prosecutorial.

So what else can those who have drunk the Trump cool-aid do?  They are searching for a strategy that will result in the President’s ability to fire the Special Prosecutor and end the threat to Trump’s autocratic regime.  Hence the effort to discredit the thousands of loyal, patriotic employees of the FBI as ‘supporters of Hillary Clinton’ who are out to ‘get’ the President.  How absolutely ridiculous!  And of course, they claim that Mueller has hired Clinton supporters to conduct the investigation.  In fact in a rather McCarthy-esque tableau last week, Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI, was questioned by Trey Gowdy, Jim Jordan and others trying to insinuate that all the members of Mueller’s team and major staff at the FBI were anti-Trump.  Rep. Louie Gohmert read aloud from a list of FBI officials, asking Wray after each name whether that person had shown political bias in their work.  Maybe he should have asked Wray if any of them ‘were or had ever been members of the communist party!’

If Trump fires the Special Prosecutor based on fact-less accusations of bias, there is no telling where we go from there.  There is real jeopardy for our republic if we turn around that bend.  It is doubtful now that there are any Republicans who will ever put country ahead of party.  Our democracy will have fallen over the edge of a precipice I could never have imagined for America.  It will be the end of the America I was born into.