[NYPOST] Who knows what wrongdoing will be revealed in the treasure trove of documents the president ordered declassified this week.It will take time to sift through evidence about what he calls the "single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax."But whatever it is, chances are that the Democrats already will have accused their enemies of committing the very same crime.
This is the psychological art of projection and it is their favorite political weapon. Projecting your guilt onto your opponent is "the cleverest trick in propaganda," as Hitler’s minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, once described it in 1934.
So it is no surprise that one of the most recent documents declassified by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe shows that the only candidate who used Russian disinformation in the 2016 campaign was not Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
but
Crooked HillaryClinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as
the smartest woman in the world,usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
, who has shouted loudest and longest that the president is a Russian agent.
Handwritten notes from then-CIA Director John Brennan
...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt...
shed light on US intelligence from late July 2016 of Russian claims that Clinton personally had approved a plan to "stir up a scandal" against Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
in order to distract from her use of a private e-mail server. Brennan’s notes suggest he told President Barack Obama
How much damage could he do in four years?... Eight, then...
all about the plot.
Looks like Russia collusion wasn’t a hoax, after all. But the FBI targeted the victims while allowing the culprits off scot free.
This probably is the worst case of Democratic projection in history. But it prompts a roundup of other notable instances when Democrats shifted their own wrongdoing, thought crimes and malign motivations onto their opponents.
Take their latest attack line on the president, that his brain is addled from coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
treatments. That’s a rich projection from a party whose candidate is famously cognitively impaired.
Of course, the odd memory lapse doesn’t stop Joe
Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden
...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
and his speechwriters from engaging in blatant projection. In fact, it probably helps.
Take Biden’s claim that his campaign represents the working-class people of Scranton, Pa., versus Trump’s billionaire elites: "All that Trump can see from Park Avenue is Wall Street."