Democrats have to make a choice

MUELLER EXITS, THROWS STINK BOMB AS HE CLOSES DOOR

STILL PROTECTING THE DEEP STATE

Robert Mueller announced he is resigning from the Department of Justice and returning to private life. He then stated in a contradicting summary that he could not find sufficient evidence  to charge Trump or his campaign of conspiring or cooperating with the Russians in the 1016 election. He then went on and stated that he could not clear Trump of obstructing the investigation. He claims that it was because it was not DOJ policy to indict a sitting President. He intentionally left everyone wondering what he has been doing for two years to give such a poor result for his efforts.

It seems this may have been just an expensive opposition research operation paid for by the American taxpayers.

It seems he has used the same tactics as Jim Comey, who listed all the laws broken by Hillary Clinton, but claimed he could not indict because her intent was unclear. Now,  Mueller claims he believes Trump is guilty but could not indict because he could not prove his case or policy did not allow it.

It is becoming clear that Mueller is not the virtuous public servant he has been built up to represent.

How is it that not one word about the Dossier that was produced with information from Russian sources, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign in an attempt to influence the election. There was millions of dollars spent on this Dossier, much more than the $40,000 of Facebook ads purchased by the Russians. 

If this was truly an investigation into Russian interference, why was this not mentioned. It just proves this whole investigation was an attempt to force Trump from office and they are not ready to quit.

Mueller and those who cooperated in this shame cannot give it up, because the whole thing is an attempt to keep their unlawful activities under wraps. Not only the whole Trump attempted coup, but financial misdeeds involving those in high positions in the FBI and Department of Justice.

The extortion of billions of dollars from American Banks and the funneling of the money to progressive activist groups, and the sale of 20% of the Uranium resources of the United States to Russia, approved by none other than Mr. Mueller himself. who was FBI director at the time.

Now he is exiting and handing the baton to the Democratic party. We will see if they have the guts to go down this road when many of them know it is a fake vicious attempt to force the President out of office. 

It will be interesting to see how it will look, if as soon as they start this process, many of the unanswered questions begin to be answered. We will most likely get dueling narratives as to who are the real criminals in all this mess.

This could all very well begin the greatest crisis the country has yet to endure.

Effects of China tariffs are minimal

CHINA HAS MUCH MORE AT RISK THAN THE U.S.

TARIFFS WILL BE OPPORTUNITY FOR OTHER SUPPLIERS

Much is being made of the tariffs being placed on Chinese goods imported into the U.S. market. The U.S. imports $539 billion in goods from China, China imports $120 billion from the U.S.  Most of the exports to China are aircraft, machinery, optical and medical equipment.

We export $9.3 billion in agricultural products to China mostly soybeans, cotton, pork products and grain.

While we can put tariffs on much more products than China, most of the things we import are not necessitates. Most of it is discretionary items.

When China puts tariffs on pork and soybeans it is on products that are necessities and will be felt directly by their people.

Tariffs placed on most Chinese products are not direct. While they may raise costs to consumers, there also will be an opportunity for other countries, Viet Nam, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea to take market share from China. It will also be an opportunity for clothing manufacturers in Central America, Mexico and Africa to become alternate suppliers to the U.S. market.

American manufacturers and retailers will see some costs rise, but China may be forced to absorb some of this cost to maintain their competitiveness in many of these markets. They will unlikely be willing to continue to resist reform for an extended period as the rest of the developing world will be more than willing to attempt to under price Chinese tariffed products.

China has been notorious for stealing and copying American products, Forcing manufactures in China to turn over copy rights and patents for access to their markets, and placing high tariffs on many American products.

All the while, rather than expanding their middle class, and developing a domestic consumer market, they are building a large military and expanding influence around the world. They have openly planned to be a world power in the next five years. 

It is interesting that even some of the leading Democrats support Trump's pressure on China to reform, while opposing tariff's. No one seems to have a viable alternative to this approach. What is needed is a united effort on the part of all Americans to stand firm and insist that China play by the accepted rules of free and fair trade.

Barr hearing: More Democratic hysterical spin.

CANNOT ACCEPT THE ELECTION, CANNOT ACCEPT MUELLER CONCLUSIONS

BARR, ONLY ADULT IN THE HEARING

It was another exercise in watching a non reality or fantasy show. We see the Democrats all on the same talking points, accusing Barr of lying in his previous hearing. The facts are, as Barr clearly stated, he was asked if he understood anything about a report in the New York Times that undisclosed members of the Mueller team were unhappy with his conclusions of the Mueller report. He stated that he did not know who these unnamed sources were or what their dissatisfaction was. It was later revealed that Mueller had sent a letter to Barr complaining that the media reports were not an accurate picture of his report. He then talked to Mueller and asked him if he disagreed with his conclusions in his initial 4 page statement concerning the report. He stated the Mueller answered NO. The questions were concerning two separate parties and two separate incidents. This is now considered a lie by the Democrats.

Their other talking point is that Barr had made the conclusion that there was not obstruction by the president. He stated that Mueller completed his investigation, that he interviewed all that he wanted to and that he found no evidence of conspiracy or collaboration with the Russian government by either Trump or his campaign. He answered in detail specific questions concerning this matter and stressed if their was no crime to begin with it was difficult to prove obstruction of a non-crime. 

Now, their will be pressure to interview Mueller, Barr says he has not objection, we will see if the Democrats really want to go there. If Mueller does not give them the answers they want it will be fatal to their agenda. So it is possible they will forgo that unless they have assurance that it will help their narrative.

It appears to an objective observer that both Mueller and Rosenstein made a decision to pull the plug on this force Trump out of office endeavor. Mueller in the course of his investigation may have seen many irregularities in the Justice department and FBI. He decided not to go there, as it was not his mandate, but rather to just pack it in. By not reaching any conclusion on obstruction, he as much as said there was nothing worth pursuing. He could have stated his conclusion differently, but it appears he was trying to play both sides. There is possible evidence that Mueller is also vulnerable in some incidents in the previous administration.  

Rosenstein, who was initially part of the plan to force Trump from office seems to have bailed out some time ago and may be a witness against others. If Rosenstein becomes a witness or has already agreed to be a witness he undoubtedly knows all the players.

You can bet there is much anxiety in the Justice department and FBI by anyone who was instrumental is this attempted coup. Their only hope is to get rid of Trump and now also William Barr.  You can bet the dam will break when those who knew what was going on, but were not part of the conspiracy, feel safe to talk.

The Democrats and Media are all in, hoping to be successful with this coup, but it is looking more unlikely. Expect them to save themselves by blaming others for feeding them information that they trusted. You can bet many of them knew this was a false story and engaged in it anyway.

This is a dangerous time for the country, we have many enemies out side the country and it seems too many are still obsessed with re-litigating the last election.