Fw: Note from Newt

Well put, and, as usual, Principal Nancy is on watch!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Turlington" <turlingtonn@hotmail.com>
To: "McDowell, Robert W., Jr." <abdmcfpi@localnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:46 PM
Subject: Note from Newt


Nobody does a better job than Newt Gingrich in summarizing things.
Here's Newts latest.

"Watching the first wave of reaction to Attorney General Barr's Press Conference
and the release of the Mueller Report led me to conclude America is trapped in a
cycle of media madness. This media madness is crippling the country, maximizing
partisan divisions, and absorbing so much time and energy that it cripples America
in trying to come to grips with dangers that could destroy us.
"Mueller reported after a nearly two-year effort which involved 19 lawyers,
40 staff, more than 2,800 subpoenas, nearly 500 search warrants, and around 500
witnesses. The investigation spent more than $25 million.
"If the Mueller team could have found President Trump guilty, they would
have. After all, Mueller recruited as his legal team – 14 Democrats, 12 of whom
have contributed to Democrats. Of these lawyers seven were Clinton donors, one
attended Clinton's election night party, and one represented the Clinton Foundation
and Hillary Clinton herself.
"Far from being innocent of bias, two of the Mueller team's lawyers met with
Christopher Steele, the author of the discredited dossier, before the 2016 election.
For supposed balance, Mueller had one Republican lawyer on the team and zero
Trump donors. When almost two years of digging by this anti-Trump wolfpack
could produce no signs of guilt, it is reasonable to conclude that was because there
were no signs of guilt.
"However, the anti-Trump news media has too much invested in hating Trump
to give up just because two years of work by 14 highly motivated, aggressive
Democrat lawyers found no laws broken. The first 24 hours of coverage give a
pretty good clue to the next phase of this madness. Every small item in the Mueller
report will become an excuse to harass the Trump team and Republicans in
general (note the nasty tone of the CBS interview with Sarah Sanders over
whether she used one word wrongly).
"Just watch: Reporters who were totally wrong will interview Democrat(ic)
politicians who were totally wrong, and they both will focus on the next phase of
the anti-Trump cycle. It doesn't matter how often reporters have been
demonstrably wrong and misled by their anonymous sources, they still pontificate
as though they know something. It doesn't matter how much Democrat(ic)
congressmen or senators were wrong, they will just launch a new attack on
President Trump.
"The fascinating thing is President Trump's ability to ignore the madness and
focus on leading the country. Through all the hysteria, he has been able to focus on
getting conservative judges on the federal bench, cutting regulations, tax cuts, job
creation, North Korea, the Middle East, Venezuela, China, and trade negotiations
with multiple countries – even with 92 percent negative news coverage and
Democrats attacking him every day.
"It has been impressive watching the President limit his responses to Twitter
attacks and sections of his rally speeches while continuing to hold meetings and
focus on the vast substantive challenges facing America. Now President Trump
is liberated from the dark cloud of the Mueller investigation. After 448 pages, the
conclusion was no collusion of any kind with Russia and no proof of obstruction
of justice strong enough to warrant prosecution.
Given the ongoing hostility and negativity with this positive report, imagine
what would have happened if President Trump had received the kind of judgment
Ken Starr rendered on President Bill Clinton. In the Starr Report, Clinton was
found to be guilty of breaking the law 11 times. Seven of those charges included
acts of perjury (some multiple times), and five were explicitly obstruction of justice
(including the ninth charge of witness tampering).
"Imagine where we would be today if Robert Mueller had used the word
guilty on 11 different counts involving President Trump. Imagine where we would
be if the Mueller Report had said President Trump was guilty of five counts of
obstruction of justice.
"That is where the Left, the news media, and the Democrats had hoped
Mueller would end up. They were counting on a definitive finding of guilt – just as
they were counting on Hillary Clinton to win on election night 2016. Instead, they
were forced to come to grips with a Donald Trump presidency (anyone can see
it has been agonizing for them). So, now the Left is once again having to come to
grips with deep, bitter disappointment.
"The 2016 disappointment led the Left to invent the Russian collusion
explanation because they could not bring themselves to tell Hillary it was her fault
she lost. I'm interested to see where this latest traumatic disappointment will lead
them – and what they will latch on to as their next vehicle for avoiding reality.
"Meanwhile, the reality of the Trump presidency – and the renewed strength
of President Trump as a vindicated innocent man – will continue to change America
in a direction the country likes and the Left hates. "

Your Friend, �
Newt

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