Trump
Should Fire Rosenstein Immediately
By Paul
Craig Roberts
July
16, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
- Does Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein’s indictment of 12 Russian
military intelligence officers for allegedly
hacking Hillary’s emails and interfering in the
US election have any purpose other than to throw
a monkey wrench in President Trump’s upcoming
summit with Putin?
Don’t
forget that Rosenstein is implicated in the
orchestration of Russiagate as a weapon against
Trump, a weapon that serves the interests of the
Democratic Party and the military/security
complex about which President Eisenhower warned
us 56 years ago to no avail. Rosenstein’s
indictment of 12 Russians for allegedly hacking
computers is a political indictment aimed at
President Trump. The indictment is otherwise
pointless as the Russian government will
certainly not turn over its military personnel
to a Washington kangaroo court. The indictment
serves no purpose except to poison the
atmosphere of the summit.
If you
read the indictment, you will see that it
consists of nothing but improbable accusations.
There is no way on earth that the US Justice
(sic) Department would be able to acquire the
information in this fictional story that
Rosenstein has presented. Moreover, there is no
sign whatsoever of any evidence in the
indictment. Rosenstein knows that he needs no
evidence, because the accused will never be
brought to trial.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/13/rosenstein-says-12-russian-intel-officers-indicted-in-special-counsels-probe.html
Rosenstein has thrown red meat to the
presstitutes, who are assets of the
military/security complex and Democratic Party,
and the presstitutes will pressure the
Republicans to get behind Rosenstein’s call for
a united front against Russian interference. You
can imagine what would happen if Trump and Putin
were to have a successful summit and normalize
the relations that Washington ruined between the
two countries. If your imagination is not
working, consult here:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/07/10/the-view-of-russia-in-the-west-paul-craig-roberts/
During
the presidential election campaign, I pointed
out that Trump was not Washington savvy, did not
know who would support his positions, which were
antithetical to the interests of powerful
interest groups such as the military-security
complex and global offshoring corporations, and
that Trump ran the risk of being destroyed by
his own appointments.
Rod
Rosenstein is a Trump appointment. Moreover when
Trump’s Attorney General ordered Rosenstein’s
resignation, Trump refused to accept it and kept
Rosenstein in office. Trump’s miscalculation is
so enormously wrong that he deserves the knife
in the back that Rosenstein just delivered.
If
there were a valid indictment of 12 Russians,
for the sake of the summit’s success, a normal
functioning deputy attorney general would have
held the indictment until after the summit
results and, if the summit were successful,
would have deep-sixed the indictment regardless
of whether there is a basis for it. My 25 years
in Washington tells me clearly that Rosenstein
has knifed Trump in the back. If Rosenstein has
caused the summit to fail, Rosenstein has raised
the risk of thermo-nuclear warfare.
There
is an alternative to the explanation above. The
alternative is that Trump, being a bully, was
convinced by those in his administration, who
most certainly do not want any normalization
with Russia, that the indictment would put Putin
on the spot and give Trump the advantage in the
bullying arena. I can hear the CIA and John
Bolton telling Trump that the indictment would
put Putin on the defensive and permit Trump to
pressure him into a summit outcome favorable to
Washington’s hegemony.
This is
a clever way of setting Trump up for failure in
his meeting with Putin that could possibly
poison the relations between the countries ever
further without the failure being blamed on
Rosenstein. Thus, Rosenstein’s position as
Trump’s political assassin would not be
threatened. He would still be running Russiagate
with a recused Jeff Sessions sitting there
useless.
Professor Stephen Cohen is a premier expert on
US/Russian elections. His considered view is
compatible with mine:
https://www.thenation.com/article/summitgate-campaign-vs-peace/
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
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