Originally Posted by
Tranquillus in Exile
If the Brennan-Comey gang was trying to interfere in the election, they made a piss poor job of it. No public announcement that Trump was under investigation (unlike HC just before the election - how's that for interference?). No big leak of the Steele dossier - Steele couldn't even get the Washington Post to carry it.
Hmm, this theory doesn't seem to be working. So we make some adjustments: it wasn't about election interference, it was about insurance. That's it! Didn't the known conspirator Strzok text about an insurance policy?
I've seen this sort of thing countless times when I was arguing with 9/11 "truthers" at Amazon Politics. First, decide on the Answer. There coudn't possibly be any hint of wrongdoing by the Trump campaign, so it must have been a politically-motivated conspiracy by the Deep State (which we discovered last week, lol). Next, search the record for corroboration. Doesn't have to be provable, just enough to keep the narrative going. And if you search hard enough, you can always find something.
It's classic conspiracy theory.
If anything, it’s a case competing conspiracy theories lol.
Trump/Russia is a conspiracy theory by the same standard you’re using to judge the Deep State conspiracy theory. All the right ingredients are there: people assuming from the outset that Trump conspired with Putin
to affect the election—and the only basis for it are some facts; which, when they are arranged in a certain way form the preferred conclusion.
And the ‘thinking’ lefties [as opposed to the mindless ones] are at least intuitively aware of it because they’ve backed off from collusion. I put you in the former category, btw.
In a certain sense, every criminal investigation is a kind of conspiracy theory. Investigations start with a set of facts [they even call it a fact pattern]; an hypothesis is formed based on said facts. Then the hypothesis is tested.
It’s call criminal ‘science’ for a reason.
The fact pattern surrounding the origin of the Russian investigation warrants a criminal investigation. The Deep State conspiracy theory is a straw man. All that is necessary for the *criminal theory* to be true is a cabal of actors conspiring to subvert an election or unseat a president through the abuse of power. The actors even have names: McCabe, Strzok, Brennan, Lisa Page, Rod Rosenstein and others. Several of them have already been fired, demoted or forced to leave their jobs. And you can be assured a few of them are hoping democrats take take House before things start to happen to them.
This isn’t Tin Foil Hat stuff.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
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