LATE NIGHT HOSTS ARE JUST DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH A TIMESLOT: Radio silence: Late night hosts loved attacking Trump but haven’t said a word about Tara Reade.

DISPUTED BY WHOM AND FOR WHAT REASON? Twitter to label disputed COVID-19 tweets.

I dispute the misleading use of “COVID-19,” which is the infection and not the virus. The virus is properly called the Wuhan Virus, for the mainland China city ruled by Chinese Communists where the PRC-sourced Sino-virus came from.

YES, IT DOES: It looks like President Obama ordered up phony RussiaGate scandal.

RussiaGate is now a complete dead letter — but ObamaGate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his successor?

It’s now clear the Obama-Comey FBI and Justice Department never had anything more substantial than the laughable fiction of the Steele dossier to justify the “counterintelligence” investigation of the Trump campaign. Yet incessant leaks from that supposedly confidential probe wound up consuming the Trump administration’s first months in office — followed by the Bob Mueller-led special-counsel investigation that proved nearly the “total witch hunt” that President Trump dubbed it.

Information released as the Justice Department dropped its charges against Gen. Mike Flynn shows that President Barack Obama, in his final days in office, played a key role in fanning the flames of phony scandal. Fully briefed on the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, he knew the FBI had come up with nothing despite months of work starting in July 2016.

Yet on Jan. 5, 2017, Obama told top officials who’d be staying on in the new administration to keep the crucial facts from Team Trump.

It happened at an Oval Office meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, intel chiefs John Brennan and Jim Clapper and National Security Adviser Susan Rice, as well as FBI Director Jim Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.

Gangster government, to use Michael Barone’s phrase.

Related: Why Did Obama Tell The FBI To Hide Its Activities From The Trump Administration?

DAVID HARSANYI: Yes, the Flynn Dismissal Upholds the Rule of Law.

We now know that the Obama administration engaged in unprecedented abuses of power, not merely in its persistent attempts to circumvent the other branches of the United States government, but in its weaponizing of government institutions for partisan ends, including our intelligence agencies.

Flynn, notwithstanding Obama’s contention, was never charged with “perjury” — a crime which entails lying under oath. Flynn faced trumped-up charges related to a conversation in which he allegedly misled FBI agents. Flynn, who didn’t even know he was under investigation, was entrapped by agents conducting an inquiry devoid of any credible evidence.

The Obama administration already had recordings of Flynn’s calls with the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, and knew that the incoming national-security adviser, who spoke to numerous heads of state, did not undermine American interests — which often change, and are a matter of interpretation — nor had he agreed to drop Russian sanctions on Donald Trump’s behalf.

Not even the agents who conducted the interview believed that Flynn had willfully intended to deceive them. Flynn was only charged ten months after the conversation, and only to keep the bogus Russia collusion investigation going.

Even then, the FBI hid exculpatory evidence from Flynn and his lawyers, as Obama’s allies in the Trump administration and Mueller’s deputies continued to pretend that the former general was a lynchpin.

That we have so many DOJ “alumni” who think that rule of law prevents a remedy for a rigged prosecution falsely charging a man with a crime cooked up by the investigators explains why the DOJ is such a garbage institution now.

And this nation has never faced a bigger threat to the rule of law than Barack Obama. It remains unclear that we will survive it.

YES, PLEASE: Acting DNI seeks to declassify any Obama officials involved in Flynn ‘unmasking’: Grenell visited the Justice Department last week over the matter.

While the law requires that identifying information of U.S. persons picked up during foreign surveillance be “masked,” high-ranking intelligence officials can request the identities be revealed if they feel the information is necessary to further understand the intercepts.

Former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice has openly acknowledged unmasking the identities of some senior Trump officials during the presidential transition but has strenuously denied ever leaking any identities and said nothing she did was politically motivated.

In 2017, Rep. Devin Nunes — a longtime critic of the Russia investigation — accused the Obama administration of improper unmasking of Trump transition officials after he secretly met with two national security officials at the White House who he said provided him with documents supporting his assertions.

Note how ABC tries to spin this story.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: How the 2020 Election Became a Referendum on China.

By turning 2020 into a referendum on Trump-to-blame-not-China, the CCP may put Biden in an awkward position because it’s a Democratic article of faith that the Donald is always to blame. A 2020 “China election” would vex allies because even those with no affection for Trump cannot afford to see China win.

The adage “take the high ground” applies to politics and it’s puzzling why the Democrats didn’t take “Reshore Hill” and become the champion of returning jobs to America before Trump did. Instead, reflex pushed them into instinctive opposition, tending to disculpate China and demand even longer lockdowns, even to their potential detriment. Seeing the danger, Rachel Esplin Odell and Stephen Wertheim ask in the New York Times: Can the Democrats Avoid Trump’s China Trap?

Read the whole thing.

HEADLINE: Trump administration cuts funding for coronavirus researcher, jeopardizing possible COVID-19 cure.

What the story is actually about: The U.S. funding cut to the Chinese Wuhan virus lab, which also affects this guy’s research. Read the story for an example of how journalism can be bent to a desired narrative.

YEAH. DEFINNITELY MY SHOCKED FACE:  Public Health Agencies Care More About Controlling You Than Prepping For Pandemics.

I’M MAKING A NOTE TO BUY POPCORN STOCKS:  CNN’s Brian Stelter Melts Down Over Conservative Media Exposing Russiagate Conspiracies.

BUT ONLY BECAUSE SCHADENFREUDE ISN’T LISTED ON THE NASDAQ.

AND…. IT’S MY SHOCKED FACE AGAIN!  Convicted Child Sex Abusers Among 4.5K Inmates Freed from Illinois Prisons.

I’M NOT WAITING WITH SANDWICHES BY THE PHONE, BUT I’M HOPING:  Is Obama’s Long History of Playing Dirty Finally Catching Up With Him?

ABOUT TIME:   Tucker Carlson Calls Out (Softly) Trey Gowdy For His Prior Defenses of Mueller and Comey…

LOOK, HOW SHOCKED MY FACE!  China Ratchets Up C-19 Propaganda Machine.

HEY, HAVE YOU SEEN MY SHOCKED FACE?  60 Minutes Equivocates For China, Smears Pompeo.

NOTED. AND GETTING INCREASINGLY MORE P*SSY ABOUT IT:  Distancing “Militsiya” Is Watching You, Comrades: Keep Moving.

BECAUSE YOU KNOW:  ‘Social Distancing’ is Snake Oil, Not Science.

IF I KEEP USING THIS SHOCKED FACE, IT’S GOING TO GET ALL WORN OUT:  Chuck Todd Flat Out Lied About A.G. Barr.

IDK? CHINA GOT A TASTE FOR BIOLOGICAL WARFARE, MAYBE?  People In Hong Kong Are Becoming Ill With Rat Hepatitis For First Time Ever. No One Knows How It’s Happening.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. ALSO FACEBOOK DELETES THIS LINK FROM PRIVATE CHATS, NOW:  China Calls for Global Media Takeover by ‘Belt and Road News Network’.

GOOD. NOW LET’S SEE IT ENFORCED:  Encouraging Illegal Aliens To Remain In The US Is A Crime, Supreme Court Rules .

INSUFFERABLY ARROGANT GOVERNOR, MEET PRINCIPLED SHERIFF: Gov. Megan Whitmer (D-MI), Shiawassee County Sheriff Brian BeGole has a message for you. 

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Facebook content oversight member reportedly linked to Muslim Brotherhood.

RED ALERT… PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION: Argh. California’s deep-blue legislature is trying to engineer the repeal of Proposition 209.  This is a real threat.

If you were around in 1996, you may recall 209.  It was the explosively controversial California voter initiative that amended the state constitution to read: “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis or race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”

I co-chaired the campaign back in 1996. It is important to me. It hasn’t always been complied with, but it still packs a significant punch. That’s why the legislature wants to repeal it (though to do so they must put it to another vote).

Please, if you can, sign this petition. It already has over 24,000 signatures, but it’s going to need a lot more to get attention from our esteemed legislators.

With a little luck, I will have an op-ed coming out soon on this topic. I will also be blogging on it (a lot!) over the next few weeks.  (If you are interested in reading about some of the good Proposition 209 has done, read this.)

OH YEAH. Is Obama’s Long History of Playing Dirty Finally Catching Up With Him?

ON THE ONE HAND, THE “WESTERN STATES PACT” IS COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON BRANDED STATIONERY. On the other hand, they’re begging for money. Any aid should be conditioned on making the red parts of their states separate states.

FLASHBACK: The Obama Legacy Deserves To Be Destroyed. Analysis: True. America’s worst and most corrupt president.