text: UNDIEPUNDIT.COM: March 2017
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  Watch here as Mark Levin lays out all the breadcrumbs:
  In the 2012 debate with Mitt Romney, where Romney fingered Russia as the #1 geopolitical foe of the U.S., Obama famously snarked that the "1980s called and want their foreign policy back." By using Russia, Obama and the Democrats know that a certain number of Republicans will forgive any transgressions and even go along with things like wiretaps because, hey, it's Russia. Of course we should wiretap and investigate anyone colluding with those nasty Russians! Couldn't you see Barack Obama calling Mitt Romney as a character witness during his trial?
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  Sic Semper Hitleris!
  Notably absent from the above lists are two of the most frequent slurs against Donald Trump: "He's Hitler!", and "He's a fascist!". That's because those words were not available in the 1860s. You see, those were all things said by Democrats, the media, historians, and even some in his own party, about Abraham Lincoln! You read that right. The Republican who freed the slaves and defeated the confederacy, who has the big memorial on the mall in D.C., and who is on the penny and the five dollar bill was, prior to being assassinated, the most hated president in American history. Until Donald Trump, that is.
  I'm not implying some equivalence between Donald Trump and the now revered Honest Abe. I am however asserting some striking similarities between what's happening with Trump and what happened with Lincoln. In many significant and ominous ways we are reliving the disastrous 1860s. That should concern everyone.
  Democrats hated Lincoln for the same reason they hate Trump - both threatened entitlements.
  Throughout our history and up to the 1860s, Democrats had what amounted to an iron-clad slavery entitlement. Lincoln was the first president to be perceived as seriously unsympathetic to that entitlement. You may not have learned this in school, but no Republican in history ever owned a slave. Slavery was a wholly owned Democrat entitlement.
  And that list doesn't include the traditional transfer payment entitlements like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, etc. Even Donald Trump's just released budget doesn't dare touch those entrenched goodies. But it matters little whether or not a politician explicitly threatens to take the candy away. The only requirement for drawing Democrat vitriol is the perception that an entitlement is under threat.
  In both Lincoln's and Trump's cases, Democrat civil disobedience began immediately after the election. Southern Democrat states began seceding in 1860 right after Lincoln won. Immediately following Trump's 2016 victory Democrats were in the streets protesting and in many cases being violent.
  Most recently, several Democrat state and local governments have announced plans to "secede" by refusing to enforce certain federal laws. In response, Donald Trump has promised to withhold their federal funds. This type of standoff is exactly what led to the battle of Fort Sumter, the first battle of the Civil War. Fort Sumter took place six weeks after Lincoln took office. Donald Trump has been in office six weeks as of today.
  If you think I'm exaggerating the danger posed by hateful rhetoric and demonization, consider that Betsy DeVos, the new Secretary of Education, vilified and threatened by Democrats and the teacher's union, has been placed under the protection of federal marshals. The only other cabinet member ever needing federal marshals was a drug czar in danger of being murdered by the drug cartels.
  Abraham Lincoln faced a similar situation from Democrat entertainers in his day. An actor named John Wilkes Booth, whom Lincoln had seen perform only a week before, was the man who infamously shot him in the head while attending another play. As Booth jumped onto the theater stage immediately after shooting Lincoln he shouted, "Sic Semper Tyrannis!", which if modernized would translate to, "All fascists must die!" Donald Trump has already survived at least one bumbling assassination attempt during his campaign.
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  Session's Russia Sessions
  Multiple Democrats, including Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, have called on Jeff Sessions, the new Attorney General, to resign. The ostensible reason is that he met with the Russian Ambassador twice in 2016 while he was a U.S. Senator and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Both of these meetings were public knowledge. One took place at a Heritage Foundation confab, and the other took place in the U.S. Senate building, in Session's office. That's real cloak and dagger stuff right there.
  The reason this is supposed to be a problem is that Sessions was asked about his contacts with Russia as a Trump campaign advisor and he denied having any. He was not asked about his contacts with Russia as an elected officeholder who is SUPPOSED to have discussions with foreign leaders!
  Here's what I wrote about the whole "Russian Hacking" meme back on January 4th. It still holds true...
  Remember Benghazi? This Russian hacking meme, and the responses to it, are just like what happened after Benghazi. Back then, the ploy involved an anti-Muslim YouTube video instead of Russian meddling, but the goal was the same: divert attention to cover-up an ugly reality.
  There are always some "tells" with these tactics:
  Instantaneous determination of the culprit.
  Unanimous talking-point buy-in from all Democrat operatives.
  Over-the-top denunciations of routine behavior.
  Convenient deferrals to the "intelligence community". (Which, of course, has been thoroughly politicized in the Obama era.)
  Disproportionate and decisive remedial action taken.
  Inability to provide any proof.
  Claims that proof exists, but exposing proof would jeopardize secret national security sources and methods.
  Like Benghazi, there was an instantaneous determination of complicity after WikiLeaks began releasing DNC and John Podesta emails. It took the Obama administration several years to finally figure out that Major Hassan, screaming "Allahu Akbar" while murdering U.S. military personnel, was actually committing an act of terror. Yet somehow the administration knew instantly Russia, and specifically Vladimir Putin, was to blame for the emails. The same administration that couldn't competently launch an Obamacare website with an unlimited budget and years to prepare, knew instantly and with absolute certainty that the easily disguised tracks of a phishing scam led directly to Vladimir Putin. Does this add up?
  So unanimous was the adherence to this meme, that it became a standing joke whenever a Democrat operative was interviewed during the campaign. The interviewer would ask a question about some innocuous topic, something like, "So, how's the food on the campaign trail?", and the op would figure out a way to squeeze in a reference to Russians meddling in our election! Anyone paying attention could tell this was a meme being pushed for political expediency...just like the Benghazi YouTube diversion.
  Remember after Benghazi how every Democrat operative referred to the YouTube video as "reprehensible", and then would go on to distance the U.S. government from having anything to do with it? That was classic straw-man stuff, as no one ever claimed the U.S. government had anything to do with the video in the first place. With this Russian "hack", operatives have been using superlatives for how evil and against international norms this alleged hack has been. Oh really? Not long ago, WikiLeaks disclosed the U.S. government was actually listening to Angela Merkel's cell phone! Now that deserved some superlatives. And during the last election in Israel, Obama spent a pile of U.S. taxpayer money in an attempt to overthrow Bibi Netanyahu. All of it wasted, of course. Yet somehow we are to believe Putin is doing something reprehensible? Putin actually invaded a country recently, and Obama's response? Nothing. Remember Anna Chapman? She was a real Russian spy with an entire spy ring living in the U.S. who got caught in 2010. Obama's response? Nothing - except she was asked to leave. Now someone figures-out Podesta's "ultra-secure" password is actually... "password", and Obama is expelling people and sending troops? Does this make logical sense?
  The intelligence community was somehow coerced into mentioning the YouTube video as a possible irritant for the murders in Benghazi. We now know that line was Bravo Sierra. Similarly, the same intelligence community is now pedaling the line about Putin and the Ruskies. Just as credible, and just as political as last time. And in both cases, there were dupes in both parties who sincerely bought into the ploy.
  To make the Benghazi ploy look legit, Obama actually did imprison the hapless guy who made the YouTube video. If only we had a first amendment or something to protect video makers from being imprisoned for speech! Oh wait... Now we are invading countries and expelling diplomats to make the same diversional ploy look legit. That, and to sabotage the incoming administration.
  In both Benghazi and the email hack there is a conspicuous lack of proof to support the diversions, and none is forthcoming in either case. Obama promised a swift response after Benghazi, and then said, "The perpetrators will be brought to justice!". Remember how every major network was able to interview the perps within weeks, but it took the Obama military, with a budget in the trillions, years to get one alleged attacker and bring him stateside? His trial is conveniently scheduled for 2017, long after the election of 2016. He would certainly know if the attack was really a film critique, and I'm sure he was offered a great deal to publicly finger the video on 60 Minutes. Of course, any serious observer would know that the compound in Benghazi was attacked on multiple occasions long before the offending YouTube video was ever put online!
  In the case of Benghazi, one poor schmuck actually spent a year in prison to divert attention from a terrorist attack and get Obama re-elected. Now it is a diversion to delegitimize and sabotage the incoming President who threatens to undo eight years of Obama's totalitarian liberalism. This time the ploy has turned sinister and dangerous. I sure hope Donald Trump can gracefully dance around all the landmines Barack Obama is putting in his path, because if not, real people could get blown up.
  (UPDATE: The company that found the alleged Russian hack, and on which the entire intelligence community assessment rests, is a Google linked company with strong ties to the Hillary Clinton campaign. CrowdStrike was funded by a division of Google, and Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Googles parent, was a staff member and advisor to the Clinton campaign.)