Let us look back at fairly recent history for a moment, shall we? Beginning in mid September and growing louder in October, 2016, a campaign of there is an explosive document out there that if you only saw it would destroy Trump and you need to know about this!

This wasn't even Sources Say, this was I am such an insider that I have seen this thing and *pearl clutch* if only I could tell you but trust me. My response was publish it then. If it is so explosive and so important, publish it. If it is that important, let me see it.
Cut to January, 2017 and Buzzfeed publishing the Steele fanfic I mean dossier and there it was. That was what Our Super Duper Ultra Connected Insiders meant and, apparently, believed to their hearts that it was true. Trump was being run by Russia! Russia Russia Russia!
As I stated then and as I continue to state, it is my firm belief that the goal with the dossier and all the related spying upon Trump was to charge Trump with treason after Trump lost in 2016. And by treason I mean actual treason. I mean Trump is a spy and being run by Russia.
Trump has been run by Russia since the 1980s has been going around the Left wing internet circles for ages. This is not a new charge. Look at the rhetoric used by Hillary Clinton to this day about Trump and Russia. The goal was a treason charge. Pour encourager and all that.
And it wasn't just the Left. After all, only crazies would believe that the Steele dossier would be used as the basis of a FISA warrant. How DARE anyone attack the professionalism and the care used by the DOJ and the FBI when going before a FISA court! Why Mueller is a patriot!
How DARE anyone not realize how serious all of this is and how we must investigate and on and on and on. Then Mueller, or, more precisely, Mueller's team, issued that report and the response on the Left was to just pretend it never happened or that it supported their position.
Muh Russia has never been abandoned by the Left. The point of the NYS AG probe is to get the information that people just know, to their marrow, is out there that Trump is funded and run by Putin. It's an article of faith. I maintain that the goal is to charge Trump with treason.
Everything that is currently being done with the impeachment is simply laying the groundwork for actual charges to be filed later. Think I'm wrong? The can Trump pardon himself articles go back well before the current contretemps.
So, yes, I will say what I've been saying for years. The end goal is a treason charge not only because Trump is the hate object but to make sure that anyone who ever even thought about supporting Trump is painted as hating America and supporting treason.
Maybe I am wildly wrong and I feel like a crazed lunatic (more so than usual) at times for thinking this. But then Hillary Clinton starts up with Putin told Trump to do the January 6th riots and there's another tick in the box on my side. This will all end so desperately well.

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@bellingcat's attempt in their new book, published by
@BloomsburyBooks, to coverup the @OPCW #Douma controversy, promote US and UK gov. war narratives, and whitewash fraudulent conduct within the OPCW, is an exercise in deception through omission. @BloomsburyPub @Tim_Hayward_


1) 2000 words are devoted to the OPCW controversy regarding the alleged chemical weapon attack in #Douma, Syria in 2018 but critical material is omitted from the book. Reading it, one would never know the following:

2) That the controversy started when the original interim report, drafted and agreed by Douma inspection team members, was secretly modified by an unknown OPCW person who had manipulated the findings to suggest an attack had occurred. https://t.co/QtAAyH9WyX… @RobertF40396660


3) This act of attempted deception was only derailed because an inspector discovered the secret changes. The manipulations were reported by @ClarkeMicah
and can be readily observed in documents now available https://t.co/2BUNlD8ZUv….

4) @bellingcat's book also makes no mention of the @couragefoundation panel, attended by the @opcw's first Director General, Jose Bustani, at which an OPCW official detailed key procedural irregularities and scientific flaws with the Final Douma Report:

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Please add your own.

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“Gun to the head—what would you decide now?”

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“What’s end-game here?”

“What does success look like in a world where you pick that path?”

5/ When listening, after empathizing, and wanting to help them make their own decisions without imposing your world view:

“What would the best version of yourself do”?