First McCabe, then; Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Strzok, the Ohrs, Steele (in absentia?) Clinton Campaign people, etc.?

"Federal prosecutors have been weighing for well over a year whether to charge McCabe, after the Justice Department’s inspector general alleged that McCabe had misled investigators several times about a media disclosure regarding the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s family foundation.

[Inspector general report faults McCabe for unauthorized disclosure of information, misleading investigators]

By the inspector general’s telling, McCabe approved the disclosure and later — when asked about the matter by investigators with the FBI’s inspection division and inspector general’s office — denied having done so. McCabe’s attorney has said previously that his statements “are more properly understood as the result of misunderstanding, miscommunication, and honest failures of recollection based on the swirl of events around him.” Lying to investigators is a federal crime."  Washpost

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This whole thing has the odor of something by Dostoevsky, C&P maybe?

"Who will watch the watchers?"  Well, if Barr and company are not going to indict these characters, the answer is NOBODY!

If you read the long litany of articles on SST by David Habakkuk and Larry Johnson, the pattern of a soft coup conspiracy  against the possibility of HC's defeat is quite clear.

And then following her loss, largely brought on IMO, by her unwillingness to cultivate the Deplorables, the semi-Deplorables and the Irredeemable Deplorables, this disdain on her part for ordinary people was further displayed in her offhand dismissal of coal miners as future wards of the state.

Once she had lost, the plot rolled on in an effort to make the ultimate Deplorable a failure in office.

It is de rigeur to write that both parties should feel equally wounded by the plot but they do not.  pl

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-could-be-nearing-decision-on-whether-to-charge-andrew-mccabe/2019/08/26/0e1a636c-c840-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html

Comments

[John Minehan]

ms up the answer to this: https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3017498/one-country-winning-trade-war-its-not-us-and-its-not-china

[Jack]

Taleb’s thesis is not hedging but buying cheap insurance for tail risk. Two different things.

[John Minehan]

Good news for Brazil https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-us-isnt-winning-trumps-trade-war-everyone-is-losing

[John Minehan]

I think this has some merit https://fortune.com/2019/08/16/trump-china-trade-war-winner-data/.

The real answer is that this is a big advantage to Vietnam, Brazil and other similarly situated countries.

[John Minehan]

I liked Stillwell and teh American Experiance in China. She had a knack for telling a story as well as presenting information.

[Barbara Ann]

As I said here shortly after his election, Trump has tremendous skin in the game. The day he took office the fortunes of the brand Trump became inextricably linked to his presidency. If he is impeached, or otherwise fails spectacularly he will be ruined and his whole family will become outcasts.

[Barbara Ann]

One of the reasons Trump is consistently underestimated is pure and simple intellectual snobbery. He is boorish, so assumed to be an oaf. I have no difficulty saying he is brilliant. It may not be the socially acceptable kind of brilliance, but that does not change the fact.

Given the potential for deadly consequences, I imagine in your world (GB and particularly in MI) any such prejudice is quickly rooted or trained out.

[catherine]

''This will require victory to be declared in the trade war. ''

Don't worry about Trump's trade war. Trump will declare 'victory' in the trade war whether or not it is an actual victory...lol....just keep reading his tweets.