Trump’s Big Victory In Muller Probe

By Kumar David –APRIL 7, 2019

Prof. Kumar David

A new left emerges as Democratic Party’s challenge to Trump fizzles out: Trump’s big victory in Muller probe

After a two year investigation, respected former FBI Director Robert Muller III’s report concluded that there was no conclusive proof of collusion between Trump and his election outfit with Russia. It is a big victory for Trump and a defeat for anti-Trump mainstream media. The vindication unleashed a Trumpian offensive against the Democratic Party and liberal media which are snivelling and licking their wounds. It opened the way to dismantling and dismembering Obamacare, building the “Wall” on the Mexican border and advancing anti-immigration legislation. Trump is crude, capricious and plays trumps to his Base but he keeps his promises to his Base, though it makes liberals, intellectuals and ‘respectable’ folk cringe. I do not question Muller’s integrity; what has so far been made public of the report is a thumbs up for America’s die-hards just when alt-right ideology was on the retreat globally.

As the post-Muller debate heated up Trump crowed: “This has been an incredible week for America. The economy is roaring, the ISIS caliphate is defeated 100 percent, and after three years of lies and smears and slander the Russia hoax is finally dead. The collusion delusion is over”. The Democrats hoping for juicy titbits to fight back with intend to obtain subpoenas for release of the full report without redactions, and the underlying evidence; but the game is lost and this cock won’t fight anymore.

Vedic seers in the two thousand year old Linga Purana predict “Thieves will become kings and kings will be thieves” – ah they took the words out of my mouth! Trump is manifestly unfit for high office and denigrates the presidency; he evokes outrage and scorn at home and abroad; a blighted nationalist described as racist and homophobic Trump is also a crude crotch-grabbing sexist and reveller in ‘pussy-talk’. Unsurprisingly an egregious by-product of his anti-Islamism is that he fuels what a friend in an e-mail described as: “A concerted campaign to discredit New Zealand’s PM Jacinda Arden because of her bold stand on Christchurch. There is also an insidious campaign to make out that the targeted mosque was a recruiting centre for Islamist terrorism in a despicable attempt to justify this act of terror”.

Nevertheless about a third of America – the white working class in manufacturing and mining, and marginalised rural white folk in the mid-west and south – a ‘solid minority’ of poorer voters give Trump wholehearted support. Supposedly respectable conservatives, market-blighted GOP leaders and big business which has profited from tax cuts and awaits the dismantling environmental protection (cheer leaders for more climate change), all cheer him on though they are sceptical of his agenda and recognise the irreparable damage he is doing to America’s overseas agenda.

The Muller Report has not been released and only a summary prepared (doctored?) by Attorney General – Minister of Justice – William (Bill) Barr (a Trump appointee) and his deputy Rod Rosenstein, despite clamouring by Congress and the public.  However we can be certain that Muller has not explicitly found Trump guilty of collusion; a big propaganda victory for the President. The report will say: “The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” The backlash from the “no proof” verdict would have been insignificant if the Democrats and the media had had class politics on their plates.

I have clueless friends whose refrain is about American productivity, the quality of its universities, the worth of its democratic institutions and the merit of the capitalist market. But what can quickly turn the tables on Trump is if the economy turns sour; the Cassandras are many. True the US economy is ticking along but slowing down after just three good quarters; prognostications are that a recession is overdue. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in We are 15 Minutes from Midnight in The Telegraph of 29 March writes: “Citigroup has issued an explicit recession warning advising clients to wind down risky assets and prepare to ride out a storm. The bank’s investment team said the US Federal Reserve over-tightened monetary policy waiting too long to stop raising interest rates or slow the pace of quantitative tightening (reverse-QE). The economy is below the waterline and will most likely succumb”.

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