In 1940, after Mussolini invaded France, FDR commented that “the hand that held the dagger has stuck it into the back of its neighbor.”
To change the metaphor to Roman history, we now know who was the modern-day Cassius who was behind Brutus’s assassination of Julius Caesar. Cassius’ new name is Giuliani. He was in the high tower when FBI Director James Comey announced a week ago last Friday possibly “pertinent” but still unrevealed emails implicating Hillary Clinton’s private server were found on Anthony Weiners’ lap top.
It was former federal prosecutor and Trump consigliere Rudy Giuliani who, on Fox News two days before Comey acted, intimated—with a murderous glint in his eye and a rapine smile on his lips—that such an action was imminent. Giuliani’s New York law office has long represented the 13,000-member Association of FBI Agents that has gone so far as to name its honorary award after him. Hillary Clinton in her recent remarks, an at the Annual Al Smith Charity Dinner, with Giuliani sitting on the same dais glowering at her, humiliated Giuliani. We also know that the “rebellion” in FBI ranks, about which Donald Trump is bragging on the campaign trail in New Hampshire where according to the NYT’s Nate Silver Trump is closing the gap, originated among New York FBI agents. Was it also orchestrated from Giuliani’s law office? Giuliani’s belated coy denials on Fox News—where Brett Baier has also aired unsubstantiated reports of yet-to-come in indictments against Hillary—that he, Giuliani, has his fingerprints on the FBI-Comey dagger are unconvincing.
It remains to be seen if there will be enough movement in the expanding array of battleground state polls over the final weekend to throw the presidential election to Trump. The Stock Market, up this morning on good economic news, cratered during the final hour of trading on rumors about this possibility. Whatever happens, a political coup and conspiracy emanating from within the highest ranks of American Justice has already compromised and wounded the democratic process.
The only consolation is that there will be a Democratic President in the White House, albeit “a lame duck,” with the political motivation to still thwart the last act in this scarcely-disguised conspiracy—if indeed after Tuesday it is not a fait accompli by then.
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