Robby Mook ought to be like Al Capone. He’s a self-described “political junkie” and veteran insider of Democratic machine politics. He’s the kind of man who blends into a room with beige walls; a man of unassuming looks and average gait. Mook looks like an accountant, not the man who might have, unintentionally, killed what was left of Hillary’s ambition.
Mook was a big fan of Bernie Sanders from a very young age. He started his political career with Vermont politics. Mook worked for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 unsuccessful presidential bid. After that, he was employed by Terry McAuliffe before Hillary selected him to be her 2016 campaign manager. Mook was known for “getting things done.” Mook took control of every aspect of the 2016 campaign, managing human resources campaign cash and messaging. Mook micromanaged staff members who were traveling to Iowa. He instructed them to fly to Minneapolis or Moline, Illinois to rent a car and get their tickets cheaper. Mook loyalists inside the campaign were called “The Mook Mafia”. It didn’t matter what happened in 2016, it just passed through Mook, before reaching Hillary.
Mook was summoned to stand by the prosecution in the second week at the Sussmann Trial. Mook was interviewed about his involvement in the Alfa Bank story. He testified that he met with other staffers about what to do with the “story.” They (meaning Mook) decided that the campaign would get the media to inflate the story and pin Trump to Russia. One of “Mook’s mafia” soldiers dropped the story with Slate Magazine. Hillary approved of it all. Mook also testified.
“Hey, you know, we have this, and we want to share it with a reporter… [Hillary] agreed to that.”
Mook claimed he was hoping that the media would “vet” the story for accuracy. Unlikely. If you’re interested in buying it, I can sell you a bridge. The media didn’t “vet” it, of course. It was too juicy. Mook had no interest in truth or accuracy in any event – he was interested in one thing, smearing Trump. Hillary was able to tweet the following:
Computer scientists discovered a hidden server that links the Trump Organization and a Russian-based bank, according to reports. pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 1, 2016
Hilary knew that she and Mook were responsible for pushing the unvetted, soon to be discredited story of Russian collusion but facts have never gotten in the way of Hillary Clinton’s ambition or ego. Hilary’s 2016, utterly and completely false discredited tweet remains up.
What Mook’s testimony laid bare is that Hilary was fully aware of Mook’s dirty tricks and media plants and approved of them. Nonetheless, to this day, Hillary has continued her media assault on facts, claiming for the better part of five years that Trump was a Putin cat’s paw and an agent of Russia. Russia, according to Hillary, ruined her run for president and it’s that lie she will take to her grave — or prison. Whatever comes first.
Durham’s prosecutors claim Sussmann passed along the same information about Trump and Alfa Bank to the FBI in September 2016 at the behest of the Clinton campaign. Sussmann claims he did not do that and claimed he was a private citizen who went to the FBI. Sussmann’s defense is akin to a child claiming he didn’t eat the cookies even with crumbs all over his face and hands. Equally, Mook claiming he didn’t know or suspect that Sussmann was, in fact, acting for or on behalf of the campaign, is suspect at best. Mook claimed:
“Going to the FBI does not seem like an effective way to get information out to the public. You do that through the media, which is why the information was shared with the media.”
Except that isn’t how Hillary’s mafia has operated over the past 40 years. Hilary is a scorcher of the Earth for many decades. She uses every weapon to destroy enemies and burn their corpses. It makes perfect sense that Hillary would approve of media dissemination of false information and, in addition, order a: “Let’s planted a Russian collusion story with the FBI and have the FBI investigate that, too.” If anyone raised an eyebrow about facts, Hillary could throw up her hands in confusion, and use her “Who, me?” excuse. ‘The FBI is investigating Trump, it must have some legitimacy. After all — don’t you trust the FBI?” In any event, she thought she’d be President by the time her lies and dirty tricks were revealed so, who would care? By then she would be in control of the Justice Dept. and FBI and all her emails would disappear.
This whole thing is worse than Watergate, in my opinion. Numerous politically motivated people orchestrated and planned a series of lies that would bury Donald Trump. Watergate was an orchestrated conspiracy of political numbskulls who were looking for dirt. They didn’t make up the lies. I find it a bit more concerning to see a coordinated effort to lie with the FBI and press.
The “Mook Mafia” did its job, and did it well.
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