The two-plus year great hoax has come to an end. Trump is not Putin's puppet, as the vast majority of the mainstream media and Democrats have claimed. There was no "collusion" with Russia. So after so much wasted time and money, where do US/Russia relations stand and where should they be heading? What does it mean for the Venezuela regime change operation?
The two-plus year great hoax has come to an end. Trump is not Putin's puppet, as the vast majority of the mainstream media and Democrats have claimed. There was no "collusion" with Russia. So after so much wasted time and money, where do US/Russia relations stand and where should they be heading? What does it mean for the Venezuela regime change operation?
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With me today is Daniel McAdams, our co-host, Daniel.
Good to see you.
How are you this morning, Dr. Paul?
Doing well.
I think there's good news today.
Finally, the Mueller investigation is over, and we're ready to start a new one.
When's the next one going to start?
I wonder who they will be investigating next.
Well, it'll probably be Hillary.
Everybody wants to know what Hillary is doing, so maybe they'll investigate her one of these days, too.
But no, I think, you know, the left-wing media is going to be awfully bored.
I mean, it's been incessant.
And I don't sit and watch television, but I sit sometimes and I flip channels.
Now, I get most fascinated when, say, Fox runs all the statements by the six other channels, and it's all canned.
They all say the same thing.
Literally.
And of course, they put their foot in their mouth, too.
But I'll tell you what, I think this was a good report in that people have become more skeptical of government.
That the left have to admit, well, maybe we went too far and the FBI needs to get rehabilitated and justified.
We'll clean it up.
We're already, you know, rebuilding confidence in government.
I think the loss of confidence is what was necessary, and that's very good.
And of course, the conclusion, of course, was a lot different than a lot of people anticipated, the Democrats especially.
But when you look back now, we so often look at most establishment politicians not being too smart.
That they live in their own world and are self-serving and they make stupid mistakes.
Well, I would think that if you're comparing mistakes now between the two political parties, this has to be one of the biggest by the Democrats on pursuing this.
And yet they did it, and now it's in, and now they're going to have to live with it, and they're going to get the House to investigate it and find out what's really in that report.
My idea, and others have shared this, is that that may be really another good step because it might just mean that maybe what they did in this Mueller report was protect Hillary because they could have gone in that direction.
Her or her organization was dealing with Russia Gate.
You know, they could have said, hey, this looks like the real problem is over here.
And they ignored it.
So somebody's going to, when they get that full report, they might look at that.
The whole thing might backfire on them.
And that won't be disappointing to too many people other than the Democrats.
But it's something that, you know, it's at an end stage.
It's restarting.
Everybody's lining up their ducks and they're getting ready to fight the next battle.
But I would say Trump came out pretty darn well on this.
And one statement I thought he made was pretty good because I don't find too much stuff that he says fascinating.
He says, you know, somebody with a little weaker skin or something like that, he says they couldn't have stood up to all this.
And I think there's some truth to that.
There's not many who could have put up with that, but there's not many others that could have made themselves so vulnerable.
Yeah, that's true.
But you talk about unintended consequences because here are the vast majority of the Democratic Party, the almost entirety of the mainstream media, politicians, desperate to get rid of Trump, desperate to undermine him.
They've done the one thing by pushing this hoax for two years, and now the rest of the world knows what many of us felt in the beginning that it's a hoax.
Pushing this for two years.
It's shown to be a hoax.
And what happens?
Trump comes out of this looking better than ever, stronger than ever, and they've just given him his 2020 campaign complete slogan, complete everything.
Anytime something comes up, he's going to roll this out.
Yeah, I think that's right.
And I think he's probably feeling pretty good today.
But the whole thing is, that was so overblown.
And the way you mentioned, why did they spend these two years?
But it was pure politics and it was corruption in our government.
I thought the thing that annoyed me the most was the corruption in the Justice Department and the FBI.
They've been our favorite anyway, but it is so corrupt and how they use it.
It's really good news that this information got out.
And I kept thinking, you know, someday, just as they've written some good books about the lies told about getting into war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the truth is coming out, and history, history wins out in the end.
The truth will be found out.
In this case, there will be books written about this.
But right now, the material is becoming more available.
And I think we're closer to the truth about what government is really like now than we were before.
So in that sense, it's good that Mueller came out with this answer and his program there, I think, was much to the benefit of the country.
You want to talk about corruption.
Look at the U.S. intelligence community.
Look at Brennan and look at Clapper.
For these last two years, they would go on mainstream media regularly and say, well, you don't know what we know because we are in the intelligence business and we have all the secret stuff.
And let me tell you, there is so much evidence that Trump is Putin's puppet and this and that.
For two years, they've peddled this, masquerading as if they're still in the intelligence community.
If anything should destroy people's confidence in the character of people going into government, this should, I hope.
You know, I've made the statement many times about when they have investigations and commissions set up, like the Kennedy Commission or the 9-11 Commission, that you never get to the truth of it.
And so often it's for cover-up.
So I would say in this case, there was an investigation, and I think we're better off now than we were two years ago.
If there had not been the investigation, then the lies would continue.
But the lies continue anyway.
This is so amazing.
They never quit.
They just go over to something else and say, ah, yeah, but he didn't do this.
And, you know, on this collusion thing, they said, well, there's no collusion, but there was obviously there could be some cover-up.
And the statement, even what the Barr put out, he says, yes, but they didn't prove that there was no cover-up.
So, but how do you prove something that didn't happen?
This likes proving a negative.
There was no evidence, and they had no information, no reason to pursue it.
But remember, we do not have proof that he did not collude with them.
So the Democrats, of course, will grab hold of that.
But I think that's a stupid way to present it.
That there's a lot of things they didn't prove.
You know, that when you say you can't prove a negative.
Anyway, I still think it was a good day for revealing some truth.
But believe me, I don't think our work is done.
I think it's going to continue because we'll probably be busy talking about foreign policy as well to make sure people know the truth about that.
And hopefully people will take on board.
This is massive malpractice, journalistic malpractice.
Max Boot, David Korn, MSNBC, CNN, Rachel Maddow, all of these people, massive malpractice over two years.
I don't usually retweet Donald Trump, but he had a very good tweet that he put out just before the show started.
It was a little segment on Fox News where they had an expert on terrorism or something.
And anyway, he made the point that Adam Schiff, Squilwell, these other guys have been pushing this hoax for years, they should resign from Congress in disgrace, never show their faces again, because they pushed this lie and they knew it was a lie all along.
And, you know, this is a good thing.
This is house cleaning.
Hopefully people will wake up and stop believing all of the other government lies, Venezuela, et cetera, et cetera.
You know, and the word collusion is a pretty good one to describe the people who have really caused so much harm.
And that is, there was a grand collusion, and they felt like they were above the law, that they would never be caught.
I'm Hillary Clinton.
They can't touch me.
And they made agreements.
They're not going to prosecute me.
Went on and on.
But there was some deep collusion going on to plan this.
They picked up on that dossier and then they were able to collude with the FBI and the Justice Department and then pump it into the media.
And they were able to do this.
So there was a tremendous collusion.
So that's the collusion that needs to be revealed.
If the Democrats are going to demand that this be reopened and start from scratch again, and I just suspect that they may open up another can of worms for themselves, because there'll be something in that report to show that they didn't follow the trail.
And the trail had nothing to do with Trump.
The trail was all over the Hillary's and Hillary and the Democrat.
So I think they're going to get stung with this as well.
Talk about projection.
The claim was, oh, the Russians are doing this to undermine confidence in our system.
Actually, what happened is the Hillary campaign deeply undermined the confidence in our system and our system itself.
They used a fake dossier that they knew was fake to get a FISA warrant to tap the Trump campaign, to tap Page, in which that means that they take two steps out.
They can tap basically everyone in Trump's campaign.
Our intelligence agencies were spying on a presidential campaign.
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If that doesn't undermine the democratic system of our governance, I don't know what does.
And those several individuals who probably had some infractions with the law, but it is said that everybody in this country probably breaks a law every single day or a couple laws every day.
But there are some have been indicted and some will be sentenced and some will go to jail and some don't deserve it.
But I would think this is going to give Trump license to pardon a bunch.
I mean, anybody, this is going to be questioned.
They say, this was all fake.
This was all fake.
And my guess is that when the time is right, he will be generous with the pardon.
He should.
Monafort, Roger Stone, all of these people should be pardoned.
But, you know, the Russians are also guilty.
We've been piling on the Democrats.
I mean, the Republicans are also guilty of other things.
But the Republicans are also guilty.
We've been piling on the Democrats.
But how many people in the Republican Party didn't have the courage to defend against what they knew was false?
Because they also kind of wanted it to be true.
They wanted to have the Reds under the beds because Washington needs to have an enemy, a strong enemy, because Washington survives the lifeblood of Washington is war and enemies.
So they didn't, you know, they're just as guilty, many of them.
Yeah, it wasn't a Republican-the Democratic battle.
I remember at the beginning, the moderate Republicans, anybody but Trump, they were with the Democrats on all this, and they were pushing and cooperating with it.
So it was a three-way deal here.
But right now, I think it's narrowing down a little bit.
But you know, Russia's still in the news in the foreign policy because over this weekend, the last couple days, they've gotten more active in Venezuela.
And maybe they thought everybody would be reading about Russia gate, but they have not forgotten about Venezuela.
They consider Venezuela an ally of theirs.
And they're going a long distance, but they've decided, well, we have an interest there, and we're sending them some food.
And that they say, well, you know, it was Maduro.
He'll probably not accept the food and burn the food up like they accused them of going.
But anyway, they're sending food, but they're sending weapons and then they're sending military people.
And the message is not, it's not going to go unnoticed by our government because that means that there's just a greatly reduced chance now that we're going to be landing troops here, which I never believed we would.
But we definitely aren't going to do that.
But it might be another setback for the aggressiveness of our foreign policy.
And this is really kind of a serious scenario playing out.
Venezuela is an ally with Russia, and they've been pushed into Russia's arms because of our stupid foreign policy since 1998 with Chavez of sanctions and blockades.
So they've made relations with Russia.
They've invited Russia in.
Hey, we need some help.
The Americans, the North Americans, are trying to overthrow our government.
So there was a high-level meeting last week.
You know, I think it was coming to a head where the U.S. was really thinking about using force.
There was a high-level meeting last week between the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Rybakov and our regime change czar for Venezuela, Elliot Abrams.
And basically, they sat down and the Russians said, this is our red line.
We will not accept.
We have interests.
We do business with Venezuela.
We will not accept a U.S. military intervention in Venezuela.
And what's interesting about this meeting, it was pretty clear.
But Abrams only had one statement.
He didn't bluster.
He didn't say, oh, they're full of beans.
He said something interesting.
He was chastened.
He said, no, we didn't come to a meeting of the minds, but I think the talks were positive in the sense that both sides emerged with a better understanding of the other's views.
Very interesting.
You know, if this gets to be a much hotter situation and they have to actually talk about how we're going to diffuse this, I have a suggestion for them, although it's tongue-in-cheek, and that is that we had a hot situation in the year I was drafted in the military in 1962 with missiles in Cuba.
And that was a big concern then.
And so we talked to, we talked to Khrushchev, and we took some missiles out of Turkey, and the Russians came and took their missiles out of Cuba.
So maybe we could work a deal with them if this is getting hot and we want to diffuse it.
We'll say to the Russians, all right, if you take your missiles out of Venezuela and just get out of town, we'll leave Eastern Europe.
We're going to remove our missiles that we have lined up not too far from your borders.
And that would probably be a fair trade-off for peace, but I don't think that's going to happen.
And it's funny that you say that, though, because, you know, Bolton is constantly talking about Monroe Doctrine, Monroe Doctrine.
That actually is the Monroe Doctrine, which is that we won't tolerate other people interfering in the Western Hemisphere.
And in exchange, this is the part they don't report, in exchange, we're not going to put our troops over there.
So they only take the part of it that they like.
But you know, what's interesting is after this meeting last week, over the weekend, and we noticed there's been a couple of good pieces on Zero Hedge, but there was a big Russian transport plane that flew in, tons of aid, as you said.
Also, 99 Russian troops landed there.
And not only that, General Vasily Tonkushkarov, the chief of main staff of Russian ground forces, a big shot, big general, he landed there for talks.
And they also set up the S-300s, the anti-missile defense, in at least one Venezuelan base.
And I would say that the S-300s are responsible for ending all U.S. fantasies, U.S. Israeli and Saudi fantasies of regime change in Syria.
I think that ended that there and then.
I wonder if it'll have the same effect in Venezuela.
I just wish they'd, I mean, this is a problem, it's a military problem, and a geopolitical problem, but I just wish that the people in Venezuela and the rest of the world would realize that they need to change basic policy if they want to diffuse this thing, and that is not depend on socialism.
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So what are we doing?
We're talking about what we need is more socialism in our country, but I think all the arguments that you make are certainly right, but the solution isn't going to be found by the Russians being there and us backing off and that sort of thing.
What they need to do, I mean, it's not like Venezuela has never experienced half-decent economies.
You know, there was a time when they were very, very wealthy until they came in with socialism, you know, and that's a message that is not going to be accepted here in the next couple weeks because you're going to see more confrontation.
But I think we are going to back down.
I bet you United States people, Bolton, I bet he doesn't know what to do about this, except he will not speak mildly.
Yeah.
Well, of course, we know socialism doesn't work as an economic organizing principle, but I would argue that we've got much more socialism than Venezuela does.
Look at our trillion-dollar military-industrial complex.