Fox News got to the story before I could hit the keyboard. The story? Durham’s investigation is starting to prove Trump was right when he said, “I was spied on.” It had the ring of truth early on, around inauguration time, 2017. Durham is putting meat to the bones. He is showing that the movers and shakers in the Democratic Party should be extremely cautious before they jump on Hillary’s comeback train.
Special Counsel Durham is slowly unraveling an illicit political food chain from the Hillary campaign right into the servers at Trump Tower and the Executive Office of the President (EOP). Durham in a court filing on February 11 exposed a line from a Hillary campaign go-between, the already-indicted Michael Sussman, to Nuestar tech head honcho Rodney Joffe, hankering for a job in the Hillary administration, to tech researchers at a US university under contract with the US government to illegally surveil the servers of Trump’s residence and the Trump’s EOP. Follow that?
Why? As Durham euphemistically put it, “Tech Executive-1 [Joffe] tasked these researchers to mine internet data to establish ‘an inference’ and ‘narrative’ tying then-candidate Trump to Russia.” Yep, the country was embroiled for close to four years in nothing but a good old-fashioned mud-slinging operation. It got traction because the commanding heights of the culture were all-in. Shame on them.
Defamation was the “ins” revenge against the brazenness of the “outs” for rejecting their preferences. Altering the vocabulary a bit, Peggy Noonan, best known as special assistant to Ronald Reagan and Wall Street Journal columnist, put the country’s divide in the terms of the “protected” and “unprotected” back in the heady days of 2016. She explained, “The protected make public policy. The unprotected live in it.” This self-entitled class is privileged because “they are protected from the world they have created.” How protected? She describes:
“They are figures in government, politics and media. They live in nice neighborhoods, safe ones. Their families function, their kids go to good schools, they’ve got some money. All of these things tend to isolate them, or provide buffers. Some of them . . . literally have their own security details.”
It’s all coming to a head. Red/blue, protected/unprotected, ins/outs, and masked/unmasked refer to the same split. Those riding on top will fight to stay in the saddle, even if it means committing crimes in the settled expectation that they’ll never face the bar of justice.
Peggy Noonan’s throwback piece from 2016 is worth a look.
RogerG