Do I Have This Straight?

Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) picked up the tab for the secret investigation into Trump's alleged ties with Russia, after a prominent Republican who first hired private investigators to dig up dirt and produce a dossier on Trump dropped out. (Bush?)

The dossier that was paid for (the one that included outlandish charges of then-Mr. Trump allegedly paying Russian hookers to soil a hotel bed that the President and Mrs. Obama allegedly had slept on) was convincing enough to the then-leaders of America's intelligence agencies that the United States government then justified wiretapping Team Trump's phone calls, which turned up innocuous calls to Russian diplomats in the late days of 2016 -- as is perfectly legal for an incoming president to reach out to other world leaders. (Namely, to reassure the Russians that President Obama's actions post-election in removing Russian diplomats from our country would not necessarily be the policy once the new crew was installed in January.)

No one expected Hillary Clinton or the Democrats to lose, so they did not cover their tracks very well, and now we all are being told that the whole COSTLY Trump-Russia investigation is built on whole lot of nothing. The DNC paid for people to tell us that the Russians were allegedly interfering in our election, even if the Trump voters continually denied they were misled by Russian ad buys and duped into supporting ... Comrade Drumpf (insert your favorite namecall here, if you're part of the angry 50% of the country who bought into the myth that Donald Trump is somehow an illegitimate president.)

We're not sure, at this point, if James Comey or Robert Mueller -- both formerly with the FBI; Mueller under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and Comey under Obama and then Trump -- were "in" on anything, or just honestly misled into thinking the secret Russian contacts story were legitimate and worth pursuing.

Timeout for a Taxpayer Question:
How much have these ongoing investigations to date cost us? Can we pull the plug already, or will they continue investigating further the DNC contacts with creating this story out of whole cloth, by paying for what they wanted to hear with private donations?

The real cost to our country, of course, must factor in the internal divisions in our citizens, our families, and our nation as a whole, which is now more divided that ever after being fed a steady diet of what is turning out to be untruths, that unfortunately, too many believed...

(If I don't have this straight, forgive me. Like so many others, I am still digesting the news of late, and wondering how long it will take to drain a swampland the size of Washington D.C.)


OVERHEARD: "So, Trump didn't pay people to pee on a bed, but it turns out big-DNC donor Harvey Weinstein really did jerk off in front of that lady into a potted plant?? Do you think that's where the roots of the Russian hooker story the Clinton's allegedly paid for took hold -- 'Make it a BED, not just a plant. Oh, and say that the Obama's had once slept in it, hence Trump's secret delight... That'll really disgust 'em, the fools in the Heartland.' "

#DrainThatSwamp.
#ImpeachHim?No.JailHer!
#WeWere8YearsInPower.WhatHappened?