No Justice! No Peace!’—On Russiagate, the Right May Have to Steal From the Left

Roger L. Simon  August 20, 2020Updated: August 20, 2020

In a well-wrought article for the National Review, Kyle Smith exposes how Democratic loyalists such as CNN’s Chris Cillizza are already downplaying the results of John Durham’s investigation of the Trump–Russia fraud, specifically the guilty plea of Kevin Clinesmith—a lawyer who falsified a government email in order to permit spying on a man who not only wasn’t a spy but was completely innocent.

This permission from the FISA court, exercised four times, gave the true spies—the FBI—the license to snoop on virtually anyone who had ever even met that man (Carter Page). That would include the president.

Pretty despicable, no? More is undoubtedly on the way. But the question is—who is listening? Will the left’s “prevent defense” be successful at repressing the most significant political scandal of our lifetimes (yes, far more than Watergate, because systemic).

It would be like sweeping cancer under the rug.

That is what was going through my mind as I read a review copy of Lee Smith’s compelling new “The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President.”

This book functions as a template for what actually happened in our country and the world from 2013, when the Maidan Revolution brought freedom lovers to the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine, all the way to 2019–2020, when a bogus impeachment trial occurred in our Senate based on the flimsiest evidence from that same country............To Read More.....