{"id":12190,"date":"2020-02-12T15:03:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12190"},"modified":"2020-02-12T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:03:13","slug":"the-once-and-future-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-once-and-future-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Once and Future Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that the four-and-a-half-month-long Ukraine impeachment bookend to the 22-month Mueller charade is over, it clearly accomplished nothing other than substantially raising the polls of both Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The public was reminded that Representative Gerald Nadler (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are every bit as childish, peevish, and absurd as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, we are now back to the existential issue of the entire Trump phenomenon: to what degree did the Hillary Clinton campaign collude with high-ranking Obama officials, and the top echelons of the FBI, CIA, and the national intelligence apparatus, to surveil, defame, and hope to derail Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign by unlawful means?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who in the federal government then continued Clinton\u2019s efforts&nbsp;<em>after&nbsp;<\/em>the 2016 election to disrupt and indeed attempt to destroy the Trump transition and presidency?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, someone will sort out whether that post-election effort on the part of federal officials to abort the Trump presidency, abetted by the media and #TheResistance, was a simple follow-up to the Clinton-DNC-Perkins Coe-Fusion GPS collusion against candidate Trump\u2014or a sick preemptive attempt of the administrative state to smear Trump as a \u201cRussian asset\u201d because of their worries about the exposure of their own prior criminality and Trump\u2019s iconoclastic agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/02\/09\/the-once-and-future-scandal\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Now that the four-and-a-half-month-long Ukraine impeachment bookend to the 22-month Mueller charade is over, it clearly accomplished nothing other than substantially raising the polls of both Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The public was reminded that Representative Gerald Nadler (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are every [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3aC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11763,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/with-mueller-hopes-gone-so-goes-progressive-unity\/","url_meta":{"origin":12190,"position":0},"title":"With Mueller Hopes Gone, So Goes Progressive Unity","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Democratic Party has lots of radical new ideas, and lots of radical presidential candidates and politicos. 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