Preface: Not many are aware of what I'm going to describe here....but it is where we are today....with two sides in America that will gladly give you all the information that benefits them....even force feed you....but none of the information that does not benefit them. In order to discern what has transpired....one would have to do their own research....to actually think for themselves....and that is work....it is much easier to just find the cable or radio or podcaster whose opinions they prefer. I have to begin with a similar situation from two decades ago.
There is more than one problem revolving around the Durham probe....and they are beneath the surface....obscured by the sensational. Let me go back a ways....late 2002....when the Bush administration announced that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction....this as the United States was moving forward with plans for our response to the 9/11 attacks. I remember shaking my head on hearing this. Whether Hussein was doing this or not was not necessary. It had only been a year....had we forgotten the horror of 9/11 so soon that we needed even more evidence that Saddam Hussein and others like him had to go? I knew that if the claims of WMDs did not prove to be true then Bush's political opponents would attack him....and for political reasons work against our response to the 9/11 attacks. I have held this opinion since then....and can hardly even bring myself to think about how the sacrifices of our military have been muddied....just like they had been in in Vietnam.
I had the exact same foreboding concerns from the very beginning on what would become known as Russiagate developed. The legitimate concern was that a candidate for president....who might very well win....had extensive financial ties to Russia and Russian money...and this for decades. Eric Trump made it very clear that the Trump organization could get all the money they needed from Russia. To make matters more urgent....Donald Trump was a textbook kompromat candidate. That our intelligence agencies would have these concerns on the front burner would not only be expected....but we should want them to be vigilant in anything like this....no matter what party the person or candidate belonged to. We on our side would sing a different tune if A.O.C. were to become a serious candidate for president. In retrospect....Trump often took Putin's side....disparaging NATO....taking his word on election interference against our intelligence agencies.....meeting with him for hours in private....without even aides present!
There have been numerous books written on Trump's dealing with Russia....and many more on exactly how he built his financial empire....then lost much of it....and built up again....and who knows where it is now because nothing he says on this matter can be believed without verification. The Russian concerns extend here in America also....as he dealt with sudden oligarchs and new Russian money....and even locals where he lives in New York. Please keep in mind that we....all of us conservatives....do not read these many books....because we have been told that they are fake news.
I voted for Donald Trump in 2016.....not in 2020....and certainly never again....but along with most evangelicals knew very little about him. I only knew the tabloid personage of Trump....three wives....skyscrapers....golf courses....pageants....books that he supposedly wrote....an airline....a yacht....anything like this that made the news....and a long running television show that I had not watched one single minute of....but I did have serious concerns on the methods he used to attack people. It was a few months after he took office....after Ivanka and Jared and Luther Strange and and threatening the Freedom Caucus because they did not just automatically obey him.....(note: Trump eventually destroyed the Freedom Caucus along with conservatism and evangelicalism and the Republican Party)....that I began to.....take up and read....over ninety books so far....and after seeing who Trump has been his whole life....warn of him in these posts....particularly as it relates to how he has turned out to be genuine biblical false prophet....leading multitudes of evangelicals away from dependence on Jesus Christ.
The Durham probe may indeed have legitimate claims....probably does....but it is after-the-fact of all the legitimate concerns on Trump to begin with! Referring back to the above Preface....there is enough information out there for a PHD dissertation on how corrupt and untruthful Trump has been his entire life....but in his only true genius....he craftily indoctrinated us into ignoring all of it!
The problem even gets worse. We on the 'right' as we unfortunately are limited to in descriptions....have been fundamentally changed over the past few years....and this through direct involvement with Donald Trump. We spent many months early on saying....'let Trump be Trump'....thinking we could control him....but he not only controlled us....and continues to do so....he changed us....as we have only one sustenance needed in life today....to attack....and to hate. We must win. All the legitimate ideological and policy reasons are just weapons. Our heart is gone. Only the 'truths' that we deem important are to be mentioned....all the other truths are trashed as fake news.
Thus what we have with the Durham probe is but another opportunity for Trump to escape being known by us for what he is and has always been. The new progressive Democrat Party has given us abject horror now for quite some time....Trump has now given us that same abject horror for six years now....and is in line to give us more. Republicans in general may not awaken to how their minds have been taken captive....but God may awaken those who are known by Him. In such a case there would be a winnowing within evangelicalism....so prepare to be unpopular....to put it mildly. The pulpit has never been the place for politics....but it is the place to warn of wolves in sheep's clothing.....and of false prophets. Our pulpits have failed us here as of now.
May God have mercy upon these pulpits....and thus upon us also....for we all have traveled far away from His protection and His guidance. Join with me please...in this prayer....should you come to see what we have become.
