For those who are not already aware of the unrelenting
hypocrisy of the Left, here is a little example that may help you to see the
problem:
Behavior that the Left thinks is OK, nothing wrong, nothing to complain about
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Behavior that the Left finds intolerant and perhaps even treasonous
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During the 2008 campaign, candidate Obama sent
retired ambassador William Miller to Iran to open a back channel with our
sworn enemy and to let them know that if he won the election he would be a
friend of Iran.
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This was done before Obama was elected president,
and had the potential to affect negotiations between President Bush and Iran
as Iran might wait to enter agreements to see if Obama might be elected and give
them a better deal.
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Presidents Roosevelt, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton,
Bush, and Obama, as well as Hillary Clinton have used back channels.
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· After
the 2016 election, Jared Kushner inquired about setting up a back
channel with Russia in order for Trump to discuss Syria with the Russians. We don’t know if he did this on his own or
on someone else’s orders; there is no evidence of any specific promises or
deals made.
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At the time of the alleged actions by Kushner,
Trump had been elected president; although not yet sworn in, Russia knew he
would be president and what his positions were.
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President Trump may or may not have used a
back channel.
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I don’t think there is any need to explain this. Everyone can see for themselves the complete
hypocrisy of the position of the Left, the Democrats, and other anti-Trumpers.
So, instead, let me turn to hypotheticals. When caught with their hypocrisy showing, the
Left turns to hypotheticals. They create
a “what if” scenario and then explain how that condemns President Trump, shows
his evils, and demands his removal. They
will make the current situation different from those they are willing to accept
by creating hypothetical facts. For
example, with no facts to support it, the Left suggests that Kushner, via the
back channel, was trying to negotiate business deals with the Russians for
Trump. They suggest the back channel
proves collusion between Trump and his campaign with Russia, despite absolutely
no evidence to support this. They pose
that this was some sort of attempt to derail the Russia investigation and that
it was an attempt to undermine the intelligence services (conveniently forgetting
that it was Obama’s intelligence service at the time, the same service that was
unmasking and revealing identities of numerous people including private
citizens and sometimes leaking that information to the press). Ignoring the fact that back channels have
been used by most presidents in recent history, they assert that Kushner’s back
channel attempt is a serious break from white house protocol and thus supports
action against President Trump. Yet this
hypothetical is blatantly false since back channels are a not uncommon form of
communication used to avoid having sensitive information or conversations become
public in a way that might jeopardize negotiations. No
matter – the Left will nonetheless take the hypothetical as true and then use that
narrative to condemn President Trump and his administration, to assert that these
“uncommon actions” are evidence of treason.
They assert that if candidate Trump had a back channel it would be very
serious because he had no reason for such a channel; yet, they accept candidate
Obama’s back channel with Iran, as well as many other back channels of other
presidents, as perfectly normal and not out of bounds.
The above is just one example of hypocrisy run wild. Sadly, we see this behavior daily and in
connection with every issue as the Democrats, the Left, the anti-Trumpers
desperately attempt to destroy the Trump presidency and to persuade everyone
that they are justified in doing so. Yet
their arguments are based on air; they have no substance, no facts to support
the ever more histrionic hypotheticals.
So, lest we all fall into their trap, let’s remember that hypotheticals
create a world that is not the one in which we live. Hypothetical is imaginary, theoretical,
conjectural, and suppositional; it is not real.
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