Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n
No doubt people talk indiscreetly when they believe their communications are private; perhaps those in an illicit affair may posture and brag about their self-importance and exaggerate. All that said, when reading through the latest release of the Page-Strzok archive, one is struck not just that the two who eventually were to investigate Donald Trump did not like Trump, but rather that they utterly loathed him, given their banter back and forth included: \u201cGod trump is a loathsome human.\u201d Or \u201cAnd wow, Donald Trump is an enormous d**che.\u201d Or \u201cAnd Trump should go f himself.\u201d Or \u201cI am riled up. Trump is a f***ing idiot.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is hard to imagine how the Mueller investigation was not tainted by such venom \u2014 or perhaps the hate is better understood as proof that both were uniquely qualified to serve on the Mueller team doing the holy work deemed necessary to save the progressive project.<\/p>\n
And perhaps the two had even more disdain for the supposed white working class who supported this \u201cloathsome human\u201d: e.g., cf., \u201cfrom buttf***\u00a0Texas\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0\u201d Or \u201cJust went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0\u201d Or \u201cLoudon is being gentrified, but it\u2019s still largely ignorant hillbillys [sic<\/em>].\u201d<\/p>\n Anyone trying to chronicle the supposed pretensions and arrogance of a deep-state, deplorables\/irredeemables\/clingers\/dairy-farmer\u2013hating elite could not make all this up, especially the idea that a Trump supporter gives off a unique odor, real or metaphorical.<\/p>\n Of course, if two FBI amorous agents\/attorneys in 2008 were investigating candidate or president-elect Obama and their correspondence was later revealed to be anything like the above about him or his constituents, they would have long ago been fired, no questions asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review No doubt people talk indiscreetly when they believe their communications are private; perhaps those in an illicit affair may posture and brag about their self-importance and exaggerate. All that said, when reading through the latest release of the Page-Strzok archive, one is struck not just that the two who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1156,1151,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2QB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10394,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/russia-didnt-interfere-in-u-s-election-to-help-trump-but-to-destabilize-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":10949,"position":0},"title":"Russia Didn’t Interfere In U.S. Election To Help Trump, But To Destabilize America","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0By Paul Gregory \/\/ Forbes.com \u00a0(Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB\/AFP\/Getty Images) A still unidentified Democratic Party donor paid for the factually challenged\u00a0dossier that almost sunk the Donald Trump campaign. 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