The People Eisenhower Warned About
Review of the Post Hill Press kindle eBook edition (2020)

I'm Canadian, but following American politics is difficult to avoid these days. Before I go much further I probably should say that based on one of those internet polls where your values are matched against candidate's policies, I came out ranking as most closely matched to Bernie Sanders. Hey, I'm Canadian and we have universal public health care, so what would you expect? That aside, I'm also of Estonian heritage which makes me immediately suspicious of anything with a whiff of totalitarianism or marxist-communism.

The whole Russian collusion hoax looked pretty shady to me and definitely smacked of an attempted coup by a combination of the military-industrial complex (Eisenhower's words, but what most would now call the deep state or the swamp if you factor in the intelligence community) allied with the mainstream media. The first resents their diminishing power, the second resents how Trump insults them. The Democrat Party is the public face of this, but even some of those players are obviously pawns. It was seeing Robert Mueller testifying that brought this home the most for me. That man is obviously senile and confused and could barely give any coherent answers to whatever Senate Committee he was in front of.

Anyway, the current 2020 American election has got me interested enough to start reading several related books and Dan Bongino's latest was one of the first as it happened to just come out. Bongino is an interesting character as he was a former Secret Service agent who worked on former President Obama's security detail but now runs a popular website and videoblog The Bongino Report.

Bongino puts together a compelling case about what he calls the "cabal" with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of footnotes. Many of these are hyperlinked in the eBook edition so you can read and investigate further on your own. I'm not going to pretend that Bongino is unbiased, he is obviously Republican and a Trump supporter. His argument and evidence seems pretty clear though. And with even anti-Trump CNN associate Van Jones saying that "The Russia thing is a big nothing burger," and nothing coming of the Mueller Report, it is hard to see it any other way.

Some select quotes;

The biggest outrage of all this goes back to Mueller failing to prosecute or even build a case against the real collusion that had taken place during the campaign—the hiring of Fusion GPS by Clinton and the DNC and the use of Christopher Steele to fabricate proof of collusion.

Rumors that were created by Russian intelligence were spoon-fed to Steele, who was hired by political operatives working for Hillary Clinton. Steele then fed these fictions to the FBI, attributing the claims to real people who, according to the inspector general’s report, subsequently denied knowledge of the information, or insisted they stated it was rumor and innuendo. The FBI knew Steele’s report might be disinformation. Everybody knew. But they included it anyway.

“You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern is there’s no big there there.” – FBI agent Peter Strzok, text to FBI lawyer Lisa Page.

There it is, in black and white. There are only two options here: either the FBI was relying on a document full of outright lies to spy on the Trump team, or the Russians were using Steele, a foreigner, to help Hillary spy on Trump through the FBI. There’s no option C. - excerpts from Follow the Money

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