Black Lives Matter
activist calls “bullshit” on the FBI’s “black identity extremist” label
We have to be so
careful these days. Not only about our affiliations but about the infiltrators,
provocateurs, hoaxers and paid rioters who are supported by those entities who
wish to divide the masses and have them fighting among themselves for just a crumb
from the table.
**BLM** started off
on the right path for social change, but they too have been infiltrated and it
seems that there were cries to call them a terrorist group siting their
"kill the police" chant.
Clearly there has
been some serious infiltration and the Ferguson Riots and subsequent violent
outbreaks pinned to BLM were provoked by
outsiders who care nothing about BLM's true mission and played into the hands of
the PTB, which was to demonize the group from the beginning.
Not to mention the
assassinations of leading members of this group under very mysterious
circumstances.
While the mantra may
have started with Black Lives Matter, then evolved to All Lives Matter and then
Blue Lives Matter, the reality is, that "No Lives Matter" when
dealing with a corrupt system ran by Psychopathic Control Freaks.
**Her message is
clear** and carries some strong points about racism in this country and how the
figures are slanted, discarded or ignored when taking into account where the
true extremism is coming from. These
radicalized groups get little or no mention, or are considered mentally
unstable...Thus they are pardoned and the schism continues as we fight among
ourselves over that small crumb that manages to find its way off the table of
the Elite Power grabbers.
Janaya Khan,
co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network’s Canada chapter, who is
now based in Los Angeles Janaya Khan/YouTube
"It’s been just over a week since the FBI’s latest
counterterrorism assessment, naming “black
identity extremism” an emergent violent threat to
law enforcement, became public. Now, activists in the Black Lives Matter
movement are flat out calling it “bullshit.”
In a
video statement released Tuesday, Janaya Khan, co-founder of the Black Lives
Matter Global Network’s Canada chapter, issues a searing rebuke of the FBI’s
designation. Khan, who is now based in Los Angeles, said black activists have
little choice but to assume the BIE label is a direct threat to the BLM
movement and other black movements that criticize police over excessive force.
“They
cite the killing of Michael Brown as a galvanizing moment [for black identity
extremists], making clear that the FBI is connecting this to Black Lives Matter
— a consistent subtext throughout the report,” Khan says in the video statement
first shared with Mic. “And most
alarmingly, the only consistent thread that classifies black identity extremism
is being black.”
Given what is now known about the FBI’s targeting of black
activists under COINTELPRO during the civil rights movement, BIE presents a real
security risk for activists organizing in the BLM movement, Khan said.
This story has taken
the Internet and social media by storm. I think that a lot of issues have
arisen as a result of it, but to me the most important issue is to see what is
happening in the home with these young people. The fact that most if not all of
them are runaways speaks to a deeper problem in the Black community.
There's no denying
that child trafficking and sex trafficking of young people is a serious problem,
and with all the hooplah around Pizzagate and to a more serious degree
Pedo-gate, we have to begin with looking in the home and seeing what is
happening there to the point that these young people would endanger their lives
by running away.
Today, our streets
are less safe than ever before, so it's important to help our young people feel
safe within their homes, because obviously, they feel safer in the streets
which say a lot about their home environment.
That being said, I
strongly encourage young people, male and female who are considering running
away from home that they get help from a teacher, mentor, social worker, elder
family member, minister or someone you can trust to help you. Call a hotline or
something of that nature so that you can get help because the streets are
dangerous and you could end up dead or badly hurt and/or abused if you go out
there with no protection.
NB Commentary: By permission I am reposting a message sent to me via email. I found Mr. Chism's thoughts compelling and worthy of posting in my blog. Feel free to leave your comments below. Thanks you.
The Counter Coup….
By Ronald Chism
2017-01-24
Peace,
(I have made fairly significant progress on my
book, Nine Keys to
Superior Living, so I decided to
take a little break and share my perspective on what has just occurred in the
U.S. Consider this a "post-election" analysis, although the
impact of this election reaches far, far beyond the borders of the United
States.)
Some 15
years ago, I told my wife that she and I would live to see a coup--perhaps a
military coup--in the United States that would be a counter-coup against the forces that
engineered the 1961 coup that was initiated by the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy, a coup and assassination that I, at age 11,
"witnessed," at least on television, as well as a counter-coup
against the neo-conservative forces that initiated 9/11.
Yes,
there have been two coup
d'etats in the U.S., in modern times, and one counter-coup:
The coup
that occurred at the assassination of JFK
The coup
that occurred on 9/11.
The
counter-coup initiated by forces that picked Donald Trump to be the visible representative of that coup.
Now,
Trump did not organize
it himself, nor did he conceive of it. He was picked by the major
counter-coup organizers because of his unique status as a global businessman
and, essentially, his status as a civil
nationalist [He's not a
Republican, and merely ran on the Republican ticket because he would have had
no chance to win had he ran as an independent. Running as a Republican
was a mere tool]. I will name
the major organizers of the coup in this brief note.
First, a
brief note. There are two, cultural views within the United States,
neither one of which touched upon the primereality
that has been happening in the U.S. and on the planet. Those two cultural
views are:
Leftist views that are
limited to social issues, such as racism (anti-racism), feminism, the gay
agenda, equal rights (including for the handicapped), etc.
Rightest views that center on
right-to-life issues (anti-abortion), religion (e.g., prayer in school,
the promulgation of "Christian values," etc.), anti-immigration,
etc.
But
prime issue that has defined the trajectory of U.S. policy both in the U.S. and
abroad has been the struggle between freedom and slavery; between 'higher' caste and 'lower' caste' between a tiny
controlling cabal, and the rest of us. Although this type of struggle has been happening for
thousands of years, it has manifested itself in a unique, and infinitely more
dangerous manner in the modern age than in the past.
And this was explained clearly, as a warning, by President
Dwight D. Eisenhower in his famous Farewell Address. The unique manner in
which this struggle has manifested itself in the modern age is through what
Eisenhower defined as The
Military-Industrial Complex, which
quickly became the tool by which global dominance [New World Order] would be
achieved by a hidden elite (generally hidden from the common people.) If
you have not viewed his Farewell Address, you can do so by clicking here. Here is a short quote
from that address:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced
power exists and will persist.
Here are
the major players that engineered the counter-coup that installed Trump into
the Presidency as the visible representative of that coup (You will not find
these people on The Internet, listed as part of a counter-coup. I deduced
this list through observation):
A group within the Deep State
that feared the impending social destruction of the United States by the
forces that were trying to create the NWO. The Deep State was never
of one mind. There were always divisions. But it was
9/11, and the horrid results of 9/11 (both
domestically and internationally) that swelled the ranks of those within
the Deep State that became opposed to the methods of the others within the deep state
whom they perceived as destructive to world and national order and
peace. The CIA, an arm of the Deep State, was also split, one force
wishing to carry on the plans for NWO, the other force wishing to depart
from those plans.
Dr. Steve Piezcienik
Roger Stone
Gerald Celente
Alex Jones (believe it or
not ) And I'm not kidding.
General James Mattis
General John Kelly
General Michael Flynn
Dr. Steven Greer
Aware, anti-globalist, citizen-dot-connectors of the United States
who, using The Internet, exercised a significant portion of the U.S. to
the possibility that Trump was an anti-globalist.
Julian Assange
What we
have witnessed is a Civil
War, which is still happening at this moment that has taken place
chiefly in the shadows and on The Internet. And it has not been a bloodless
Civil War, unfortunately, because people have been
killed. But it is a relatively bloodless
coup, waged mostly through The Internet, but also through the hard work of the
above people and their assistants, some of whom do not live in the United
States.
[Oh,
incidentally, I have no special knowledge about this. No one has shown me
"the secret files." My claims are based on what I now perceive as the
very obvious disclosure that a
counter-coup has occurred, that disclosure appearing before our very eyes, in
both the mainstream and alternative media, every single day now. Some of
this I pieced together on my own, some of it is information that I gathered
from the analysis of others, including experts. Only one individual, a serious expert in
intelligence, Dr. Steve Piezcienik, has actually stated that a counter-coup has
occurred].
A few
articles and YouTube videos that are helpful in seeing this counter-coup are:
Now, all
of the "right/left" commotion, in the streets, in the form of marches
and counter-marches that you are witnessing has ZERO--nada--to do with what
is reallygoing on before our eyes. Trump, in order
to get votes, held the mirror up before a significant number of disaffected
U.S. citizens, and simply reflected, from that mirror, onto himself, what they wanted to hear.
In
short, he out-politicked the politicians. I doubt very seriously if Trump
is a committed racist (Mexican, African, or otherwise), misogynist, or that he
hates the religion of Islam. Roger Stone was his principal guide who
fully understood the various factions in the U.S. that Trump would have to
appeal to:
Regarding
the last mentioned item, anti-DC politicians, remember: 40% of eligible voters
did not vote. This is a measure of the massive discontent, amongst the
citizenry. Trump's handlers were excellent in
mapping out a strategy for Trump, as well as appropriate messaging.
When I
say "appropriate" messaging, I'm not talking about morality. I'm talking
about messaging that was appropriate for appealing to the above-listed
audience.
I'll
wrap this up now. Does this mean that I believe Trump to be the real
deal? In a word, yes. And I won't mind if I end up being wrong. No
problem.
But
understand what I'm saying that he's the real deal about. He's the real deal in being the
visible head of that side of this current Civil War (occurring in the shadows, on The
Internet, and now, actually, partially in public) that is attempting to destroy
the machinations of Deep State globalists, who are also called the proponents
of a New World Order.
(Before continuing, please understand the following:
I will not argue
or debatethis matter with
anyone. That is a promise. Say, or believe, whatever you
wish. I have analyzed the situation, and it is crystal clear to me what
is going on. I was correctlyable to discover, on my own, what was happening inside Libya in
2011. And I was proven correct. I wrote 200 articles for
Mathaba.net, using a pseudonym, alerting people about what was happening in
Libya. Others did also, and that was because, in part, they were studying
as hard as I was and we all, 32 of us, came up with the same correctconclusions.
(Trump might not do all that he claims he's going to do. But
there is a priority now.
And that priority he is addressing: Destroy the influence of the destructive
Deep State, which artificially started a perpetual "war on terrorism"
to exact money from ordinary citizens, through taxes, so that arms manufacturers,
oil merchants (thieves), corporations, and others could fatten their bank
accounts. I believe that Trump is sincerely trying to put this to an
end.)
What
shocked me (in a positive way) was Trump's inaugural speech. I was
absolutely, 100% certain that he would give a speech that was totally almost
the opposite of his campaign
rhetoric. I assumed that he would "kick in" and bow down to the
political status quo (composed of Democrats and Republicans) and deliver what his opponents
would happily call a "conciliatory speech." He did not!!
I was
laughing my ASS off, because he stated the same
things that he had stated during the campaign, which is
totally not what
politicians do. They lie during the campaign, to get votes, and then, at
the inauguration, they turn back and give the signal, to the political
establishment, that, "Okay, guys, I'm ready to play ball." He
didn't do that. I was shocked.
Instead, he again lambasted all of
the establishment, including the political establishment, and put his
reputation on the line by saying that, Here is where it ends, meaning business as usual. I'm paraphrasing, but you
can listen to his speech here, if you have not done so.
He openly talked, at the inauguration, about how the politicians had
enriched themselves, but left Americans impoverished. I do not remember,
in my lifetime, any in-coming President saying such things at an
inauguration.
We, as
ordinary human beings, particularly those of us that are citizens of the United
States, have rightly grown
almost totally cynical about the power-elite. They are expert liars;
expert promisers; expert do-nothings;
expert exploiters; expert enslavers. So, it is no surprise that we cannot
get ourselves to believe, not to even mention trust,
any politicians.
I was
suspicious of that guy all the way up to the inauguration. I had hoped that he might be a true outsider, and a truly
concerned person, that would go up against the Deep State. But, I could
not get myself to believe it. But when he spoke at the inauguration, I
thought, "This guy is the real deal!"
I wonder
his chances of staying alive for four years? Since the inauguration, his
moves have been directly against
the Deep State, and obviously so. You can research that in your own way.
It's virtually out into the public domain now, on The Internet.
He
dumped TPP. He announced the re-negotiation of NAFTA. He gave hints
of working with Russia, in Syria,
to destroy ISIS, although, characteristically, he's not going to openly show
his hand (as he had stated during the campaign).
And the
hysteria against him is coming from all over the
place. When all elements of the establishment--the media, the upper
echelon of the intelligence agencies, both political parties, the Executive Branch--go
up against someone, then that person is obviously perceived by them to be an
immense threat.
At the first White House Press Briefing, his press secretary, Trump's White House Secretary, Sean Spicer, laid
out some dynamic plans that clearly indicated a huge break from Deep State
culture. One such break was the announcement that Trump was setting up Skype
Seats, which will be for journalist in other parts of the country that do not
have the clout and "inside" power as DC journalists have, and that
the mainstream media used to have. This is an
absolutely clear and direct swipe at one of the main control mechanisms of the
Deep State: The mainstream press.
This is
an attempt to defang the
mainstream press, although that job has been powerfully taken on by the
alternative media also, and also to democratize it,
for lack of a better word--to give remote news organs the opportunity to compete, in their localities, with the
mainstream media (which is now being called, the
legacy media, or the lame-stream media).
I urge
people again: Work on the metaphysics. Because, the Deep State
actors are not going
to give up. What we have to hope is that they do not conduct deadly false
flag operations designed to force the new President to respond. Or we
have to hope that if such operations are being planned, that they be
thwarted mystically by
the metaphysical efforts of those of us that believe in such efforts, and also
by whatever physical efforts can be made.
Remember:
All over the planet, even
in Africa(east Africa,
specifically) there are groups amongst the citizenry that are now fighting
against the Deep State. As Dr. Steve Greer has often explained: The Deep
State is a trans-national entity,
not an entity confined to the United States.
Last,
remember: There are priorities.
The biggest priority is to destroy the influence of the Deep State, and,
eventually, to destroy the Deep State period.
I believe that this coup has happened directly for those purposes.
That's
the end of my analysis. It's going to be interesting.
"That didn’t happen then. Will it happen now? Not if the Dept.
of Justice has anything to say about it. The Clinton's are protected."
NB Commentary:Why are
they protected? She said, "If I go down, everyone is going down with
me." That's why she is protected.
She has
been around long enough and like a virus she has infected everyone she has come
in contact with and that is globally. There are a string of offenses reaching
back 40 years and have her fingerprints all over them along with a host of
others, known and unknown, from top to bottom.
This
debacle if completely unveiled will stymie more folks than we can find guns to
shoot them with. Those who were strong enough to resist the virus, were
silenced with some form of silencer that caused the coroners to call it a
"suicide." Those who got caught up were black-mailed, and the rest
are in hiding, that is, they are walking the streets sworn to secrecy.
It's a
Pandora's box of corruption so deep and so extensive, that the entire globe
will shake, rattle and roll. It's more than saving the American republic, they
are scampering to save the world.
Imagine,
the so called "greatest country in the world" bringing down the
entire world in a pit of insane larceny, deception and debauchery.
The FBI
is complicit in its cover-ups and false flags, ask Sibel Edmonds.
The CIA
is complicit in its infiltrations and regime change.
And the
biggest puppet masters of all, well, you know how they feel. If one puppet
doesn't work, through it out and get another.
I wonder
if this was the plan all along. The United State of America once an experiment
to be praised, has fallen so deep into the pit of corruption and psychopathy,
that it is dangerous even to its puppeteers. So maybe that's the plan, take the
whole thing down, turn it into a banana republic, every man/woman for
themselves, and shoot for better fish.
Oh, she
may win the election, but it ain't over. There may be an insider mutiny going
on, but the good guys are gonna be shocked when they find out what the bad guys
have done and that some of them are their close friends and relatives. Will
they continue to pursue this? That remains to be seen. Can they afford to out
their own? Not sure if there is a blue wall when it comes to the alphabet
agencies, but there are so many secrets and need to know that some folks may
never, ever, ever know the real deal. It's a cover up of biblical proportions
and while I called the election a trainwreck, it's starting to look like an
earthquake cause a whole lot of shaking is going on.
Thanks
for your articles, Jon, I love them, I share them!!!
When investigators go rogue: James Comey and Hillary's emails
But on
Sunday, just two days before the election, Comey announced that the team had
news to share. After reviewing “all of the communications that were to or from
Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State,” he wrote, investigators had
“not changed our conclusions.”
Three
days after James Comey’s soliloquy absolving Hillary Clintonof criminal
misuse of classified information, the big winner is—James Comey. Washington’s
elite are hailing the FBI director as a modern King Solomon for avoiding a
political crisis while telling the truth.
Forgive
us if we don’t join the beatification. Now that we’ve had more time to digest
Mr. Comey’s legal reasoning, and after his appearance on Capitol Hill Thursday,
his actions are all the more troubling and set a dangerous precedent. He often
poses as the deliverer of “hard truths,” and the hard truth is that he has
helped himself politically but not the cause of equal treatment under the law.
FBI Folds Again: Reads 650,000 emails in a week, clears Hillary
Monday,
07 November 2016
And
now the pendulum of Comey backlash swings the other way. Which Republican
politician will be the first to press charges against Comey under The Heath
Act? And will Harry Reid drop his charges?
In a
letter to several committee chairmen released Sunday, FBI Director James
Comey announced on Sunday afternoon that just over a week after the FBI
reopened its probe into Clinton emails, the Bureau has not changed its July
conclusion regarding Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while
secretary of State.
House
Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz made waves Sunday
afternoon, when he tweeted about the FBI letter.
Headaches,
idiotic journalists and no ethics in sight, make up the latest leaked batch of
emails released by WikiLeaks from the hacked account of US Democratic candidate
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta.
What's that quote
about power and how it corrupts? Governments have been corrupt since they were
established. Humanity has given power to its governments so that it can avoid
being responsible. When humanity takes responsibility for its own behavior, there
would be no need for governments. Governments rob, steal, cheat and lie to its
masses in order to create the illusion that they are doing something of value
when in fact they are thieves and robbers.
The US governmental
system from top to bottom offers every chance to perpetrate frauds, back room
deals, lame philanthropy in the form of lobbyist, supposed worth of worthless
votes where the people's choice can be overridden by a host of nefarious men behind
the curtain. This country born out of unrest and protest, laid upon the
foundation of racism and the massacre of millions of indigenous, secured in the
white halls of rich land owners, can only be a failed experiment of the NWO.
We can scour the
corruption of previous governing political figures all the way back to before
Plymouth Rock. Thru the annals of supposed American history we can search and
seek out one case of corruption, blackmail, larceny, treason and a host of
other crimes that are forbidden for the masses and hidden for the elite. But
today, why is it different? Because we have Mass Media. Because we have the
INTERNET.
I always considered
myself a conscious person about the shenanigans that went on and go on in
government local, state and federal. But with the revelations that come by way
of the Internet, I am shocked and appalled that I "missed that one!"
So today, Hillary's
crimes are on blast. And Trump's inordinate behavior is on blast! Along with
Huma, Weiner, Soros, Podesta, the Rothschild and all the others. The Internet
has become the venue and tool for investigation into the crimes of ancient
history to the present day. Where we may have had to wait for the Pony express
or drum signals to bring us the news, we can now, with a tap of our finger,
bring the world and all its shadows to our devices at a moment's notice.
Hillary is on the
hot seat, not because she just started doing anything. When she started 40
years ago.. the attempts to reveal her crimes were feeble at best and defeated
by any means necessary at worse. She has progressed with the passage of time,
but she has not evolved. She has not evolved to the understanding that what
used to be so, just ain't so no more and that while she was able to slip throw
the cracks barely noticed, that is no longer possible.
Anyone at all from
anywhere in this entire world can skip the Pony Express, deafen their ears to
the drum calls and sit back in their comfortable homes and glean the thousands
of emails that Wikileaks has issued. Anyone
who uses a computer on a regular basis and uses emails knows that bleaching on
system does not bleach those that have been synced and if anyone is a Google
Administrator for the email accounts of their business, they know that emails
can be retrieved even if you "think" you deleted them. Like they said
about her health practitioners using archaic methods to address her health
issues, she too is using archaic methods to get herself off the hot seat! She
really did not keep up with the times, and having a server in her home for
"personal" email correspondence is patently ridiculous unless she was
the most popular person on Facebook Twitter, instagram and everywhere else and
she needed to contact all them folks.
Nowadays, email is
becoming obsolete for personal correspondence when messaging can be embedded in
a social media platform. Hillary didn't keep up with the times, but the times
have caught up with her. She cannot use old methods for current situations. I
would wager that while she may have pictures of herself using a smartphone,
there is no indication, based on her behavior that she is really up to date on
how these modern day contraptions work.
If NSA can follow
your every keystroke on your lonely computer somewhere in the hills of Sedona,
than quite surely they can monitor what she is doing. Have they not? And if
so..... "What do they know, and when did they know it????" To coin a
phrase.
The American people
and actually the entire world is reading Hillary's emails. Hillary is on the
International Hotseat, and if the American enabling voter wishes to ignore
this, just remember, the entire world and quite possibly the Universe sees what
you chose to be blind to.
Hillary is an old
style crook who has gotten lost in the Bonnie and Clyde sea of corruption
without a modern day life raft. In other words, the enabling American voter can
pretend she is above reproach, but the rest of the world is trending #cringe
#panic #corrupt #wtf and this will be observed on much more advanced technology
as the biggest hiccup in the political history of mankind.
Why Hillary Clinton's Campaign Is Collapsing | True News
Maybe
Hillary is the Deep State's shoo-in for president. But I suspect doubts in the
Deep State have advanced to active sabotage for the reasons noted below.
Trump, who in April of 2016 was named as the defendant in a lawsuit filed by Katie
Johnson, is scheduled to appear before a court on December 16, 2016. The
lawsuit alleges Trump, along with former banker billionaire and convicted
pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, raped Johnson when she was thirteen. The incident
allegedly happened in the 1990s.
Epstein, who was convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution in
2008, has also been associated with former President Bill Clinton, whose
name appears in “flight logs showing the former
president taking at least 26 trips aboard the ‘Lolita Express,’” a term used in association with Epstein’s Boeing 727
jet. The jet was allegedly set up with beds where Epstein
and guests “had group sex with young girls.”
The lawsuit was first
filed in April, but U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen
Stevenson threw the suit out in May because Johnson then failed “to state a civil rights claim.” The plaintiff was representing herself at the time,
claiming to be unemployed and having only $276 to her name.
In June, Johnson went
on to refile the suit in the Manhattan
federal court. This time around, Johnson filed the suit under the name “Jane
Doe,” asking $75,000 plus attorney fees. But in September, Johnson dropped her
lawsuit, only to have it refiled weeks later with three affidavits instead of
two.
While Trump is scheduled to appear in court for a status
conference in December in reference to this case, it still requires more information before it leads to a trial or
settlement.
In
contrast to Trump’s case, Clinton’s brush with the law is taking place at a
different, more advanced level — but is still not close enough to conviction to
ruin her chances of being elected.
Just over a week before Americans head to the polls to
cast their ballots, the FBI announced it would be reopening its probe into presidential
nominee and former secretary of state Clinton’s use of a private email server.
The announcement followed the discovery of an email stash found on a laptop
that belonged to former congressman Anthony Weiner.
Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, is a longtime Clinton aide.
She claims
to have been unaware that her emails were
on Weiner’s device.
Though the FBI has announced it obtained
a warrant to review the 650,000 emails, it
is unlikely the agency’s investigation will achieve any results before election
day.
The FBI is seeking
to determine whether the messages found on
Weiner’s computer include any classified information or evidence that may
indicate Clinton undermined U.S. national security.
In an article
for Law Newz, Ronn Blitzer attempts to answer
some of the questions the public might raise now that the FBI has announced the
probe, attempting to determine how Clinton’s legal future will look if she’s
elected president.
While the law “is hazy,” Blitzer writes, he goes over several scenarios. First, he explains “it’s highly unlikely that an indictment
would come before November 8.” If it
happened, however, “the
indictment itself wouldn’t mean that Clinton could no longer run, as an
indictment is only an accusation, not a conviction.” Theoretically, he continues, “the
Electoral College could … go rogue and not vote for Clinton, even if their
states tell them to.”
Another
possibility is that Clinton would be pressured, either by the DNC or the
public, to “give up her candidacy.”
In the case Clinton wins but is indicted before
her inauguration, “she
could try to play beat-the-clock and hope to take office before her case
concludes.” But if she’s both indicted and
convicted before the inauguration and then sentenced, “she may be deemed incapacitated,in which case Section 3 of the 20th Amendment kicks
in and the Vice
President-Elect, in this case Tim Kaine, would become President.”
But if Clinton wins the election and is inaugurated as
the investigation is carried on, “Clinton would luck out,”
Blitzer explains, “due
to the philosophy that Presidents — and only Presidents — [sic] are immune from
prosecution while in office.”
Since the House of Representatives determined in 1873
that a president may only be impeached over offenses committed after their
inauguration, Blitzer writes, impeachment over the email scandal isn’t likely to take
place. And even if she’s convicted after moving to the White House, “President Hillary Clinton could pardon
herself.”
These scenarios could all play out fairly similarly in
Trump’s case, assuming the rape lawsuit filed against him leads to a
conviction. But whether Clinton or Trump is elected, their federal or FBI
probes may result in nothing more than footnotes in the grand scheme of things
— especially once we’re faced with the realization that elected officials are
required to meet lower standards of conduct than the rest of us.
Only
after the FBI probe is finalized will we know if Congress is willing to tackle
the presidential immunity rules.
