July 18, 2018
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
Apples realize it better than anyone. Stand next to a bad one and you're sunk.
"Bad-Appleness" is contagious.
Take Peter Strzok, for example. He should be ashamed of the way he behaved as Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division.
But he isn't.
Sneering. Smirking. Throughout his testimony before Congress last week, Strzok was unapologetic.
He and his cohorts, both masked and unmasked, are as determined as they ever were to take down Donald Trump.
And they have the clout to do it.
The Liberal media and Bad Apples at the FBI and Department of Justice gave mega support to big shots like Strzok to help them do their Anti-Trump-Pro-Hillary work, just as Lois Lerner was given the Obama Green Light to use a government agency to bully conservatives.
This is why there was no cry of "Treason!" from former Director of National Intelligence Now-CNN-Contributor James Clapper at what Strzok did. But there was after the Trump-Putin-Helsinki meeting.
And this is why, when Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) passionately stated at the Strzok Congressional hearing, "Mr. Strzok, if I could give you a Purple Heart, I would," Democrats present at the hearing applauded.
But don't judge Liberals too harshly. They are simply used to a "different" presidential style. Obama's. Weakness through weakness.
Most people understood the Machiavellian warning, "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer," when President Trump chose to meet with Russian President Putin. But Liberals didn't.
It was about style. And priorities. Even though Obama attended all the same international summit meetings that President Trump has attended, the media didn't cover every second. The way they do with Trump.
Trump goes where he's not welcome, places Obama never would. A contentious G-7, a contentious NATO Summit. He's fearless. Controversial.
While Obama liked the glad-handing, don't-rock-the-boat summit photo ops, Trump regards these meetings as another work day at the office:
Kicking European rumps at NATO to secure more funds;
Confronting Chancellor Angela Merkel over buying energy from Russia;
And lobbying Britain on behalf of jailed right wing Muslim-gang-rape opponent Tommy Robinson.
It's the reason Liberals are up in arms after Helsinki. It's another excuse to bring him to his knees, and they are so angry that nothing they do seems to work.
At the 2013 G-8 Summit, Obama couldn't, or wouldn't, look Putin in the eye. The way Trump can. And he was so physically bored and indifferent, he seemed more like a petulant teen than the leader of the United States.
Afterwards Obama dismissed Russia as a mere "regional power," capable of threatening its neighbors, "not out of strength, but out of weakness."
This is similar to his "ISIL-JV-Team" comment. Or his scornful remarks to president candidate Mitt Romney, about Russia.
"I'm glad you recognize that al-Qaida is a threat, Mitt, because a few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia, not al-Qaida," he sneered. "The 1980s, they're calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War's been over for 20 years."
Trump and Obama. They view priorities differently.
Trump recently directed the Pentagon to create a Space Force as a sixth military branch to oversee missions and operations in space.
"We must have American dominance in space," the president told the National Space Council.
In 2010, when Obama appointed Charles Bolden as the NASA administrator, Bolden said Obama told him to make "reaching out to the Muslim world" one of the space agency's top priorities.
"Foremost," Bolden said, "he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."
Yup. Very different styles.
It's probably the reason U.S. reporters at the presser in Helsinki didn't ask Putin, "Who sold you 20 percent of our uranium, Mr. President?"
It's the same reason Democrat Congressmen applauded Peter Strzok. They're all still busy protecting what might come out about Obama. And Hillary.
Hold the line, America.
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