{"id":11847,"date":"2019-05-29T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11847"},"modified":"2019-05-29T23:31:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T06:31:16","slug":"colluders-obstructionists-leakers-and-other-projectionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/colluders-obstructionists-leakers-and-other-projectionists\/","title":{"rendered":"Colluders, Obstructionists, Leakers, and Other Projectionists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the idea that the Russians or anyone else could warp or tamper with our elections in any serious manner was laughed off by President Obama. \u201cThere is no serious person out there who would suggest that you could even rig America\u2019s elections,\u201d Obama said in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obama was anxious that the sure-to-be-sore-loser Trump would not blame his defeat on voting impropriety in a fashion that might call into question Clinton\u2019s victory. After Clinton\u2019s stunning defeat, Russian \u201ccollusion\u201d\u2014thanks initially to efforts by Obama holdover Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to go after Michael Flynn and the successful attempts of the CIA and FBI to seed the bogus Steele dossier among the government elite\u2014became a club to destroy the incoming Trump Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colluders, Inc.
\nHow ironic that Russian \u201ccollusion\u201d was used as a preemptive charge from those who actually had colluded with Russians for all sorts for financial and careerist advantages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire so-called Uranium One caper had hinged on ex-President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and their Clinton Foundation uniting with Russian or Russian-affiliated oligarchs to ease restrictions on the sale of North American uranium reserves to a Russian company with close ties to Vladimir Putin. Coincidentally what followed were massive donations from concerned Russian parties to the foundation, as well as a $500,000 honorarium to Bill Clinton for a brief Moscow speech. Note that no more money has been forthcoming from Russia to either of the Clintons or their foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Before the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the idea that the Russians or anyone else could warp or tamper with our elections in any serious manner was laughed off by President Obama. \u201cThere is no serious person out there who would suggest that you could even rig America\u2019s elections,\u201d Obama […]<\/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":[1150,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-355","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9445,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-up-hillary-down-obama-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":11847,"position":0},"title":"Trump Up, Hillary Down, Obama Out","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Without traditional battle lines to fight over, Hillary Clinton is lying low while a frenetic Donald Trump talks nonstop. 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