Pictured above is an artist’s conception of Russian President Vladimir Putin plotting the election of Donald Trump. In light of this revealing artwork, sources expect Special Counsel Robert Mueller to indict Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle in order to force them to testify against President Trump. Hey, that wouldn’t be any sillier than his two make believe indictments of Russian operatives.

And then, we have this excellent piece by former British newspaper publisher Conrad Black:

“When the cant and emotionalism subside, the Helsinki summit will go down in history as a turning point in this American president’s struggle to disembowel the bipartisan regime of complacency and lassitude he successfully ran against. It may also be a modest inflection point in U.S.-Russian relations.”

So writes Black in “Trump Will Win This Round With the Deep State” which appears in the latest issue of American Greatness. Here’s the heart of his analysis of President Trump’s remarks at the Helsinki press conference with Vladimir Putin:

“The Russian meddling is nonsense. It was trivial and though it is almost inconceivable that Putin wasn’t aware of it, that could never be proved. The president stated before the world that the U.S. intelligence community was so profoundly corrupted under his predecessor that it is less plausible than the chief occupant of the Kremlin on the subject of the late American election, which the directors of the intelligence agencies cooperated in trying to rig and then to undo, in stark and criminal violation of the Constitution. The incumbent president on one side and the former heads of the CIA, ODNI, and FBI on the other are accusing one another of heinous crimes of unconstitutional betrayal of the greatest offices of the republic.

“Clearly, if to some extent implicitly, Donald Trump is saying that the latest Mueller accusations against this gang of Russian intelligence officials are a stunt to try to prop up the fraud that there was something suspect in Trump’s pre-election relations with the Russians. Naturally, this sent the Democratic leadership before the television cameras of their obsequious network supporters to tell Trump to stop calling it a witch-hunt and cancel the Putin meeting.”

Good point that: the really corrupt and illegal political influence in the 2016 election was wielded by the Central Intelligence Agency, the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Our own law enforcement and intelligence apparatus posed the true threat to our electoral process as they corruptly cleared Hillary Clinton of criminal responsibility for her illegal compromise of national security while they tried to frame Trump for colluding with Russia.

Speaking of framing Trump, John Solomon’s opinion piece “One FBI text message in Russia probe that should alarm every American” which appears in the July 19, 2018 edition of The Hill unearths yet another devastating gem from the text message correspondence between FBI lawyer Lisa (“Trump’s never going to be president, right?”) Page and her Special Agent lover Peter (“No, we’ll stop it”) Strzok.  On May 19, 2017, Strzok texted “There’s no big there there.” To what was he referring?

According to Solomon, Strzok was summing up the Trump-Russian collusion narrative. Here’s a taste:

“The date of the text long has intrigued investigators: It is two days after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein named special counsel Robert Mueller to oversee an investigation into alleged collusion between Trump and the Russia campaign.

“Since the text was turned over to Congress, investigators wondered whether it referred to the evidence against the Trump campaign.

“This month, they finally got the chance to ask. Strzok declined to say — but Page, during a closed-door interview with lawmakers, confirmed in the most pained and contorted way that the message in fact referred to the quality of the Russia case, according to multiple eyewitnesses.

“By the time of the text and Mueller’s appointment, the FBI’s best counterintelligence agents had had plenty of time to dig. They knowingly used a dossier funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign — which contained uncorroborated allegations — to persuade the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to issue a warrant to monitor Trump campaign adviser Carter Page (no relation to Lisa Page).

“They sat on Carter Page’s phones and emails for nearly six months without getting evidence that would warrant prosecuting him. The evidence they had gathered was deemed so weak that their boss, then-FBI Director James Comey, was forced to admit to Congress after being fired by Trump that the core allegation remained substantially uncorroborated.

“In other words, they had a big nothing burger. And, based on that empty-calorie dish, Rosenstein authorized the buffet menu of a special prosecutor that has cost America millions of dollars and months of political strife.”

Be sure to read both of the above articles. They are well worth your time and effort.

Finally, KIG is again honored to be published in The American Spectator. Take a look at “Trump Keeps on Ticking” and “Hungry to Feed on Kavanaugh”  As usual, the readers’ comments are lively and entertaining.