The truth has a way of making some people very uncomfortable. The Communists Democrats appear to be not just uncomfortable but rather in full-blown panic mode. The Democrats along with some RINO buddies built a house of cards about “Russiagate” that has come tumbling down.
Apparently, no big-name Democrat was anxious to go on national TV to attempt to refute Tulsi Gabbard’s document dump. It appears on the surface that people like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Bernie Sanders and many others realize just how toxic these revelations are. Very notable by her absence in front of a camera is AOC. These people are attempting to distance themselves from these very serious allegations.
The best the Democrats could come up with to defend themselves against the truth provided by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, was to put Connecticut Representative Jim Himes on TV to push a series of lies that all leftists are sworn to believe.
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to FACE THE NATION. We are continuing our conversation now with Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes, who is the ranking member on the Intelligence Committee.
Congressman, I want to pick up on that topic.
Just a statement of fact here. A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigation found that the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election was correct, they deemed it to be so on a bipartisan basis. I’m saying that because today, and yesterday, the director of the intelligence community, Tulsi Gabbard, has said that she is referring for prosecution former American officials she accused of treasonous conspiracy, a years’ long coup against President Trump because they assessed Russia had tried to influence the election. This is weeks after the CIA director issued a report critiquing the tradecraft that went into that 2016 assessment.
Is there any legal basis for any kind of prosecution here?
REPRESENTATIVE JIM HIMES (D-CT): None. Absolutely none, Margaret. What you saw from the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was not just a lie, but a very dangerous lie. Because when you start throwing around language like sedition and treason, somebody’s going to get hurt.
Now, you pointed out that the Senate committee, then led by Marco Rubio, a Republican and now secretary of state, found unanimously that Russia meddled in the election to try to assist Donald Trump. John Durham, special council appointed by Donald Trump, investigated this, found that the Senate report was correct.
Let’s stop here for a moment. In the first few sentences of Hines’ response, three falsehoods have emerged. Tulsi Gabbard did not lie. What Gabbard did do was release documentary evidence of a conspiracy to overthrow the duly elected President of the United States. Gabbard performed a summary of that evidence that indicated this. One can come to one’s own conclusions based on the evidence presented. Even a fifth grader could probably see the conspiracy.
Next, Hines smeared Marco Rubio claiming that he chaired the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) when the committee’s assessment was created. Richard Burr was the chair at that point in time. Burr later stepped down when allegations of insider trading were directed at him. I wonder why that happened.
John Durham was not appointed by Donald Trump. He was appointed by AG Bill Barr. Durham was severely limited to what he was allowed to investigate. A blanket charge to investigate the “corruption of the 2016 election” was not on his list of allowed activities.
Hines:
Now, what Tulsi is doing, it’s a little sleight of hand but it’s worth focusing on. She is saying that the Intelligence Committee early on said that the Russians could not use cyber tools to mess with the voting infrastructure, the machines that tally our votes. That was true then and it is true now. Though the Russians tried to break into a couple of states’, you know, election technical infrastructure, they didn’t do it. But it is well known and well established that the Russians hacked into the DNC and undertook any number of influence operations, including buying reams of Facebook ads, to discredit Hillary Clinton. That is not in contention, right?
And what is horrifying about this whole lie out of Gabbard is, number one, it puts people at risk. And right now, you know, the mouth breathers on MAGA online are just going out of their minds based on a lie. And, number two, the intelligence community is full of very, very good people who do their jobs every single day and now they’re watching their leader do something that each and every one of them knows is dishonest and it is a really, really bad thing for the safety and security of the American people when that dynamic is – is – is out there.
Once again, Hines jumped right into a swampy abyss. The DNC hack was not a Russian operation. Even the politicized FBI could not go that far. If not the Russians, could murdered DNC data analyst Seth Rich have been responsible?
Let’s be reminded that Rich was beaten and then shot to death by unknown individuals on a Washington, D.C. street in the early morning hours of July 10, 2016. His attackers appear to have taken nothing—not his wallet, not his phone, not his watch. This begs the question of what his killers were looking for. The case remains open to this day.
As a Bernie Sanders supporter, Rich certainly had the motive to expose the DNC mischief that blocked Sanders’s likely nomination. And Sanders probably would have been the nominee if not for the mischief of the DNC. The leaked emails showed this. Assange offered a $20,000 reward to find Rich’s killer or killers.
Two weeks after Rich’s death, Assange suggested on Dutch TV that Rich was his source for the DNC emails then unsettling the Democratic Party.
Jack Cashill notes:
In effort to bury the story, authorities ignored what Assange reportedly told liberal media analyst Ellen Ratner shortly before the 2016 election. The FBI’s failure to interview Ratner was indicative. On the day after the 2016 election Ratner, a veteran news analyst, participated in a recorded symposium at Embry Riddle University.
“I spent three hours with Julian Assange on Saturday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London,” said Ratner more than an hour into the conversation. “One thing he did say was the leaks were not from, they were not from the Russians. They were an internal source from the Hillary Campaign.”
Is Hines woefully ignorant? Why would he bring up the DNC hack that the media had been unsuccessful at separating from the Seth Rich case? Why would Hines bring the public’s attention to this case?
Hines then referenced the Facebook ads lie. Some money (a few thousand dollars) was spent by someone who was probably Russian, to support Jill Stein in her campaign. This was reams of Facebook ads?
Hines then swings back to calling the release of evidentiary data a lie. Hines tries to say that these revelations are putting people at risk. The truth has no agenda. If people are at risk, it is because of what they have done.
Hines admits that, in his words, MAGA “mouth breathers” are incensed over this release of evidence. I would ask Congressman Hines that, if the roles were reversed and President Bush was credibly accused of executing an operation like this against Barack Obama, would he be sitting back calmly? Or would he be calling for the death penalty for those involved?
It is telling that Hines, a member of the party with “a big tent,” would call out more than half the country as dumb and stupid. That is just what Hines did when he called people “mouth breathers.” The common usage is as an insult implying the person is dumb and stupid. This demonstrates that panic is taking over in the Democratic Party. At this point the Democrats seem unable to avoid alienating the very people that they want to attract to their party. It is little wonder that the Democratic approval rating now sits at 19%, the lowest such rating ever in the history of polling. Will it go lower?