http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443867/justice-department-inspector-general-james-comey-investigation-delegitimize-trump

Will this prompt trump to renew his interest in a special prosecution on clinton and her emails?

It is disgusting that anyone does this, but it is hard to get upset at those in the media who do this and then simultaneously give trump the benefit of the doubt for his first 100 days.
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2016 was an awful election, where folks thought they could only make one of two bad choices. So be it. It is destructive to carry on being upset about the results.

We’ve had a large part of a year to absorb that. The left hasn’t.

Not an excuse, but just an observation.
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If trump were to turn a new leaf and actually “… be so presidential, (we would) be so bored”, then maybe. However, he keeps providing signs that he will continue on his same merry path.

A good many folks don’t want boring. So, entertaining it is.

Wrestlemania theatrics at the Oval Office.

“Marquess of Queensberry Rules” out.

Head (eye is insufficient) for an eye. We vs They. Red vs Blue. … seems the “new” reality.

Maybe. We’ll see.

By about April 30, we should finally get to “know” what trump is really about.

Dr. Paul Ehrlich, author of the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb is scheduled to speak in Vatican City during the February 27-March 1 conference that will discuss “how to save the natural world.” The Stanford biologist champions sex-selective abortion as well as mass forced sterilization as legitimate methods to curb population growth.

In his 1968 book, Ehrlich went so far as to defend forced abortion, writing: “Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.”

The left need to learn the Trump is not a politician like most Republican candidates. He isn’t concerned with conceeding political territory in order to curry favor and advance a political agenda. He can’t be cowed into submission. He’s not interested in the 100-year plan to popularize his party. Rather the opposite: he’s a corporate profiteer. He’ll deal with anyone who will give him more of what he wants, and anyone who gets in his way is an obstacle to be removed.

The left need to look at Trump like a business partner, not a begging politician.

Though I have been out of the country/sick/dealing with holidays and not followed him too closely.

I was bothered by the naked sliminess of the Fake Dossier story — especially given all the hoohah about Fake News.

[note that i just read people from oberlin college argue that politically correct speech was started by the right in the 80s and 90s so as to undo the freedom of speech wins of the protestors in the 1970s… funny, but i actually quoted foucoult, and others from the 1920s stalin era, but i doubt they will realize how bad. but note, in a few years, pc speech will be blamed on the not left]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446
Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.

Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.

A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.

The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.

Politico’s investigation found evidence of Ukrainian government involvement in the race that appears to strain diplomatic protocol dictating that governments refrain from engaging in one another’s elections.

The Ukrainian antipathy for Trump’s team – and alignment with Clinton’s – can be traced back to late 2013. That’s when the country’s president, Viktor Yanukovych, whom Manafort had been advising, abruptly backed out of a European Union pact linked to anti-corruption reforms. Instead, Yanukovych entered into a multibillion-dollar bailout agreement with Russia, sparking protests across Ukraine and prompting Yanukovych to flee the country to Russia under Putin’s protection.

In the ensuing crisis, Russian troops moved into the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, and Manafort dropped off the radar.

Manafort’s work for Yanukovych caught the attention of a veteran Democratic operative named Alexandra Chalupa, who had worked in the White House Office of Public Liaison during the Clinton administration. Chalupa went on to work as a staffer, then as a consultant, for Democratic National Committee. The DNC paid her $412,000 from 2004 to June 2016, according to Federal Election Commission records, though she also was paid by other clients during that time, including Democratic campaigns and the DNC’s arm for engaging expatriate Democrats around the world.

She said she shared her concern with Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., Valeriy Chaly, and one of his top aides, Oksana Shulyar, during a March 2016 meeting at the Ukrainian Embassy. According to someone briefed on the meeting, Chaly said that Manafort was very much on his radar, but that he wasn’t particularly concerned about the operative’s ties to Trump since he didn’t believe Trump stood much of a chance of winning the GOP nomination, let alone the presidency.

Chalupa said the embassy also worked directly with reporters researching Trump, Manafort and Russia to point them in the right directions. She added, though, “they were being very protective and not speaking to the press as much as they should have. I think they were being careful because their situation was that they had to be very, very careful because they could not pick sides. It’s a political issue, and they didn’t want to get involved politically because they couldn’t.”

Shulyar vehemently denied working with reporters or with Chalupa on anything related to Trump or Manafort, explaining “we were stormed by many reporters to comment on this subject, but our clear and adamant position was not to give any comment [and] not to interfere into the campaign affairs.”

Shulyar said her work with Chalupa “didn’t involve the campaign,” and she specifically stressed that “We have never worked to research and disseminate damaging information about Donald Trump and Paul Manafort.”

But Andrii Telizhenko, who worked as a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy under Shulyar, said she instructed him to help Chalupa research connections between Trump, Manafort and Russia. “Oksana said that if I had any information, or knew other people who did, then I should contact Chalupa,” recalled Telizhenko, who is now a political consultant in Kiev. “They were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa,” he said, adding “Oksana was keeping it all quiet,” but “the embassy worked very closely with” Chalupa.

In fact, sources familiar with the effort say that Shulyar specifically called Telizhenko into a meeting with Chalupa to provide an update on an American media outlet’s ongoing investigation into Manafort.

Telizhenko recalled that Chalupa told him and Shulyar that, “If we can get enough information on Paul [Manafort] or Trump’s involvement with Russia, she can get a hearing in Congress by September.”

Until then, I remain hopeful given some of his cabinet picks so far, and other indicators.

Ultimately, though, trump does not get a bye just because the left are targeting him as a “conservative” like they always have, especially given the kind of campaign he ran.

Many love trump’s trolling nature. I do not, as it distracts from real issues, and provokes the worst response from the left.

Sooner or later, the left and the msm will learn how to deal with that – to trump’s detriment (and the GOP’s, however much gets to rub off on them).

Some might say he created this bed that he must now lie in.

As such, he gets little sympathy from this person.

I have despised the msm, most, but certainly not all, democrat politicians, and our ‘intelligentsia’ overlords since Reagan was POTUS. Glad to hear you have joined me. 😉

“For all that Trump complains about negative press coverage, he wants to be locked in a relationship of mutual antagonism with the media. It behooves those journalists who aren’t partisans and reflexive Trump haters to avoid getting caught up in this dynamic. If they genuinely want to be public-spirited checks on Trump, they shouldn’t be more bitterly adversarial, but more responsible and fair.

This means taking a deep breath and not treating every Trump tweet as a major news story. It means covering Trump more as a “normal” president rather than as a constant clear and present danger to the republic. It means going out of the way to focus on substance rather than the controversy of the hour (while Trump did a fine job shaming reporters at his news conference, he was notably weak on the details on how he wants to replace Obamacare). It means a dose of modesty about how the media has lost the public’s trust, in part because of its bias and self-importance.

None of this is a particularly tall order. Yet it’s unlikely to happen, even if it was encouraging that so many reporters opposed BuzzFeed’s decision. The press and Trump will continue to be at war, although only one party to the hostilities truly knows what he is doing, and it shows.”

Just remember what got PEOTUS Trump where he is – the opprobrium of the aforementioned groups for the Vast Right Wing Conspirators, The Whacko-Birds (McSame neo-con war monger), The Basket of Deplorables, The Bitter Clingers – all of us out in the heartland – flyover country. The absolute disdain and derision for the people who grow your food, refine your oil, build your vehicles, etc.

We know the Coastal Elite hate us. Guess what?