Elites targeted Trump in phony 2016 Russian collusion accusation.
Uh oh.
Caught out.
The headline over at Fox News is this: “DOJ receives Gabbard’s criminal referral on bombshell claims Obama admin ‘manufactured’ Russian collusion hoax,” with the subtitle, “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley will also declassify the appendix to a 2018 DOJ Inspector General report.”
The Fox story reports:
And then.
And then the story reports:
Other reports note Gabbard accuses Obama, ex-Obama CIA Director John Brennan, and ex-Obama FBI Director James Comey of orchestrating what Gabbard calls a “treasonous conspiracy” that would delegitimize Trump’s first election victory in 2016. The idea was to stigmatize Trump’s win as a result of collusion with the Russians and initiate a “years-long coup” against the then-new President Trump.
Safe to say, Director Gabbard is nothing if not thorough in backing up her accusations. She has the goods — the goods, in this case, are the documents to back up her accusations in chapter and verse. And the Department of Justice is interested, according to these news reports.
Well beyond the prospective prosecutions of those involved that Gabbard promises — no small thing for sure — the obvious question is what to do about the larger issue of what can safely be called American “elites”? Elites are defined as Americans who view themselves as superior to their fellow Americans and use that sense of superiority to abuse their positions in running the government. Skirting, if not violating, the law outright, all based on the premise that they are smarter, better educated, and more deserving of their government positions than the American people for whom they are supposed to be running the government.
And this elitism isn’t just limited to those running the U.S. government. This sense of snooty superiority can and has infected all manner of quarters in America, among them the media, education, and even some areas in religion.
In fact, the rise of President Trump and what has been called the Trump “movement” is a direct response from average, working Americans who have sensed this elitist contempt coming their way for a considerable period of time.
And sensing this, these Americans responded emphatically by electing Trump.
The question now is how this issue will proceed as the country moves forward. Eventually, President Trump himself will leave office. And his potential Republican successors are out there. Whether Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, or others in the waiting GOP lineup, it would appear that whomever the GOP nominates in 2028 will be, as of now, a candidate who firmly grasps the issue of “Elites versus America.”
And, one suspects, whoever is seen as carrying that anti-elitist flag the highest in 2028 will be entering the White House in 2029.
Stay tuned.
