Judge Jeanine was back on air Saturday with a brutal take-down of Russiagate and its perpetrators.
In her first opening monologue on Justice with Judge Jeanine since returning from a two-week suspension, Pirro called for everyone involved in the failed coup to take down president Trump to face justice. Warning viewers to not be satisfied with Mueller’s report, Pirro asserted that an election coup could happen again if those responsible evade accountability.
Naming names
Pirro laced into senior intelligence officials who initiated the special counsel investigation into alleged collusion between Trump and Russia, naming former CIA chief and “snake at the head” John Brennan, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and former FBI agent Peter Strzok as among those who should have to answer for “the biggest scandal in American history, bar none,” intimating that former president Obama must have silently approved of it all “with a wink and a nod.”
“Where did this group get the confidence that this was OK?…I want to know who is the judge that signed the first FISA warrant?…and the evidence that backed up the extension of that warrant?…I want John Brennan…investigated by a grand jury. And [Andrew] McCabe, and [Peter] Strzok, and Lorreta Lynch, and that pious condescending holier-than-thou cardinal Jim Comey.” Pirro went on to describe Russiagate as the biggest voter suppression effort in American history, a bare-knuckled attack on democracy by shadowy, “scum” Deep State officials with vast powers who tried to overthrow a president by “[implanting] the seeds of indictment and impeachment.”
“When someone lies to you, you just say, ‘Don’t worry about it. I’ll get over it,’” Pirro, said. “Well, that not how our system works. There has to be accountability. There has to be a consequence because the president himself said, ‘This should never happen again.’ I can guarantee you it will happen again unless we make an example of the traitorous, treasonous group that accused Donald Trump of being an agent of the Russian government. And as they spewed their hate, I want to know who did the unmasking? Who did the leaking?”
Pirro referred to alleged “unmasking” of members of Trump’s campaign by Obama’s Justice Department as part of a wider pattern of surveillance abuses by Obama intelligence officials. Leaks of the famously discredited Steele dossier to the media introduced Russiagate to the American public, while continuous leaks from intelligence officials over the last two years fed the hoax and kept it alive.
“And if we don’t have a consequence of the highest level of government are not held responsible for this then it is a blueprint for a future effort to overthrow the government,” she continued. “Don’t be satisfied with the Mueller report. This is bound to happen again because these arrogant, lying, condescending, leaking haters of you and me and the America that doesn’t have power are going to do it again unless we stop them. And the only way to stop them is with justice — true justice, and that is behind the bars.”
Pirro not alone in quest for accountability
Pirro was suspended by Fox News over comments she made earlier this month about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), in which Pirro said that Omar’s practice of wearing a hijab was an indication that she could not be loyal to the United States. During her time out, President Trump lobbied Fox to stand by her as viewers expressed disappointment in the network’s decision.
Her return couldn’t have been better timed, coinciding as it did with the end of the Robert Mueller’s investigation and the exoneration of the president of a pernicious lie that dogged him for two years: that he was a Russian agent who cheated his way to the White House. Whatever Fox told Pirro during her suspension, she was anything but subdued in her take-down of the Russiagate hoaxers.
President Trump, on a victory lap following the release of Mueller’s findings, was similarly impassioned, describing Russiagate as an “illegal takedown that failed.” In his first major post-Mueller rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Trump called the Democrats’ continued claims of collusion “ridiculous bull****,” and his first post-release media interview, conducted via telephone with Sean Hannity, Trump said he planned to release the FISA warrants to “get to the bottom” of how the coup attempt got started.
That desire for accountability is widely shared by Republican lawmakers including Rand Paul (R-KY), all of whom have set their sights on Brennan, a top peddler of the hoax who attempted to walk back his involvement by saying he had “bad information.” However, the collapse of Russiagate has some asking deeper questions about what role Brennan played in legitimizing and disseminating the Christopher Steele dossier.
The response from Republicans has been nearly universal. When James Comey, in a characteristically narcissistic tweet, shared a picture of himself standing in a forest with the caption, “so many questions,” Sentator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) offered a pithy response: “Could not agree more. See you soon.”
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