CNN embarassed yet again, how many times can they screw up in one year? Hey CNN, Mark Levin Told Us About The Manafort Wiretap Months Ago Nationally syndicated talk show host Mark Levin made the case in March that the Obama Administration had, in fact, ordered surveillance on the Trump campaign, specifically Chairman Paul Manafort. “The evidence is overwhelming,” he said in an epic, 12-minute segment on Fox News that we at Mediaite reported on at the time: “They were so aggressive, they waited four or five months, they go back in October, weeks before the general election, they narrow their request, all of the sudden we have leaks coming out on [Michael] Flynn. Then we have a “Oh horrible” meeting that took place between [Attorney General Jeff] Sessions and so forth. And I’m telling you as a former chief of staff to a United States attorney general in the [Ronald] Regan administration, these are police state tactics.” The conservative pundit would then go on to defend POTUS, saying, “The evidence is overwhelming … Donald Trump is the victim. His campaign is the victim. His transition team is the victim. His surrogates are the victims.” To get to the bottom of the accusations, Levin suggested that the two FISA court warrant requests from the Obama administration need be released. He added, “There ought to be public hearings on this stuff, too.” Monday’s report from CNN confirming that Manafort was under FISA surveillance not only vindicates Levin but also implicates the close-minded analysts and pundits who derided Trump for dangerously heeding the advice of “a talk show host” and over-looking the fact that Levin is a learned and experienced lawyer and Justice Department veteran with great sources in Washington. The Washington Post intoned at the time that “Mark Levin is confused. Or he is trying to confuse you” suggesting that Levin is stupid or he’s a con man. Nice. The New York Daily News put Levin into an Alex Jones Conspiracy category with this attempted take-down: Mark Levin, the man behind President Trump’s inflammatory tweets accusing Barack Obama of wiretapping was the first to float the conspiracy theory on his syndicated radio show last Thursday (in New York it airs 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on 77 WABC). His rant about Obama, culled from newspaper clippings, was then turned into a story on Breitbart and within hours Trump had unleashed a series of shocking tweets causing a rift between the White House and the FBI. And pundit after analyst after anchor after “expert” on cable new would repeat the words over and over again… “Mark Levin… conservative radio host… conspiracy theory…” and now, after CNN has confirmed what Levin laid out so many months ago, that narrative is replaced by silence. I could ask the rhetorical “where does Mark Levin go to get his reputation back?” question but Levin’s reputation is intact and his influence and audience grows as strong as ever. The real question should be “where does the mainstream media go to turn in their credibility card?” After all, they dismissed Levin, despite his legal and government pedigree. They dismissed his well-reasoned and thorough explanations that he elaborated on in his nightly program and at the Conservative Review website. The facts were there and Levin used the New York Times as one of his primary sources to make the case. But, he was ignored because the incurious and deceitful hacks at mainstream outlets had a larger agenda and refused to give credibility to someone in a medium they despise and dismiss as a conservative echo chamber (a ridiculous claim for anyone who’s listened to just ten minutes of Levin in the Trump era). Yes, the Manafort wiretap story is a validaation of Levin’s reporting from months ago, but those of us who listen to his 6-9PM broadcast knew this already. The real story is how the media ignored the facts and evidence for so long and only now, thanks to anonymous leaks handed to a CNN reporter, will they grudgingly acknowledge that there may be something there. And they’ll pretend they discovered the news when Levin reported it in March. The real story is the mainstream media isn’t searching for the truth, they are partisan hacks who only publish what serves the people sitting in the shadows who leak information to them to serve their own agenda. But, of course, those of us who listen to Levin already knew that too. https://www.mediaite.com/columnists...old-us-about-the-manafort-wiretap-months-ago/
The sad fact is that, even as the sordid story begins to slowly emerge, the damage has been done and the disgraceful campaign against Trump was largely successful. They failed to prevent his election, but his administration has been severely compromised by the Russia collusion fairy tale. It cost him his National Security Advisor and he ended up with Deep State operative McMasters. The chaos created by the Comey situation, the Sessions recusal and the resultant Mueller appointment on bogus grounds derailed any momentum Trump had and left him in a position where he was vulnerable to establishment pressure to abandon his campaign promises. The American people deserve a full and complete airing of this but of course it will never happen. The DOJ is laboring under ineffective, weak and timid leadership. Republicans in congress were heavily complicit in the anti-Trump conspiracy, and when have they ever accomplished anything with an investigation anyway. The Obama thugs who orchestrated all this all deserve to go to prison, but the Deep State has their back. Trump has basically seen the first year of his administration wasted. Sessions is to blame for a lot of that, but Trump surrounded himself with liberal democrats from NYC and got rid of most of the people who got him elected. Now he is managing to alienate his core supporters over immigration, of all things. Relations with Russia are at all time lows, we are sending more troops to Afghanistan, doubling down on a failed strategy and we are getting more involved in Syria.
The one time I listened to Mark Levin he was tearing into the Republicans for trying to lay excessive blame on Hillary for Benghazi. I've just googled figures for what I recall him saying: "In Fiscal Year 2011, House Republicans cut $128 million from the Obama Administration's requests for embassy security funding; in 2012, they cut another $331 million. At the time of the Benghazi attack, about 900 Diplomatic Security Agents were responsible for guarding 275 American missions around the world. " HRC's warnings that they were understaffed were ignored etc. so the GOP were just bastards. Guy seemed pretty fair minded.
Trump has drained the swamp and exposed all the swamp creatures. Draining it was the easy part. The swamp isn't the problem, it's what live in the swamp that's killing this nation. All have been exposed, and now raise their heads and say, what of it, we're here to stay. They are untouchable and they know it. And so it goes.