What? Was? That?! Our U.S. Congress—having nothing better to do this long hot summer—spent more than one work day grilling an FBI agent, live on cable news, about ‘anti-Trump’ emails. How dare they (interrupt my daytime cable news watching)? Have they no decency, sirs? No. No, they really don’t. Particularly humorous was Texas’ own Rep. Louie Gohmert’s moral scolding of FBI Agent Peter Strzok for the many times he looked his dear wife right in the eyes while keeping secret his extra-marital affair. This from the party of Donald J. Trump.
Ignoring at least a dozen women’s claims of sexual harassment by Mr. Trump, the boys in Washington found plenty of time to brand a scarlet letter A on an FBI agent. At issue was the agent’s affair with a female colleague whose government–issued cell phone texts became a matter of public record. As the couple carried on conversations during 2016, they sent each other texts pondering a Trump win as president: the female concerned, the male assuring Trump would never be president, punctuating his certainty with the words, “We will stop him.”
American idiots and conspiracy buffs alike took that to naturally mean the FBI would, let’s just say ‘make Trump go away.’ Just like the CIA made President Kennedy take a permanent leave of office. Like the Illuminati has a plan for one-world government. Like the devil infiltrated the Vatican and continues to run loose among us to steal our very souls. Like the U.S. Air Force redacts documented proof of extraterrestrial aliens. See, I watch the “X-Files,” too.
But I never took the text by a secret agent lover man to literally mean any physical harm to Trump. I naturally thought “we” referred to the People of the United States, all 300 million of us, at least 150 million, who would take to the streets if Trump were elected and never shut up about how the 2016 election was indeed rigged. The day following that boring Congressional hearing, a dozen Russian agents were indicted by our federal government for just that: interfering with a U.S. presidential election by using the internet. Coincidence? [There are no coincidences.]
Have you or anyone you know ever been a member of the Party?
To those of us willing to endure a few hours of pointless testimony and pontification, party affiliation and allegiance was the focus of the very Republican Congressional inquiry. Again and again, Congressmen questioned the federal agent about his ability to truly separate his feelings toward Trump while investigating Trump-related affairs, no pun intended. The agent swore and attested to his professionalism in doing his job as a federal investigator even if delving into the Trump campaign. It did not matter if the agent were Democrat, Republican or Independent, he maintained he could do his job and do it well with utmost clarity.
Nahhh, replied the Congressional chorus. They would not believe an educated, mature, seasoned professional federal investigator with the F B I could put aside thoughts, feelings, impressions, gut instincts and educated guesses while performing a vitally important investigation. Can’t be done, the inquisitors declared.
Yes it can. Maybe immature kids out of college or elected officials are not yet capable of putting aside religious and political inclinations, but someone with an important federal job that calls first for an intense persona can push away unsubstantiated suspicions at the snap of a finger. Federal investigators are that good. And thank goodness, don’t you agree? Though the American people continue to be divided by deeply-held yet opposing political views, more feelings than thoughts, a professional in any field is obliged to separate opinion from the job at hand. We expect just that, or a lot of jobs won’t get done. This dual mindset, called a poker face, is expected every day of teachers, law officers, judges, doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, counselors, surgeons, lawyers, reporters, military personnel, just about any profession.
The Congressional Inquisition really wanted to know the party affiliation of one Peter Strzok, as if they had him pegged as a pinko liberal Communist Democrat. Nahhh, just about all the FBI agents involved in the Trump investigation are known Republicans. And everyone knows the FBI never liked the Clintons. It’s just that the very strange and peculiar 2016 presidential election had a lot of Democrats voting for Trump and a lot of Republicans voting for Hillary Clinton. We’re some screwed up nation, huh?
The Congressional scrutiny of an FBI agent smacked of forthcoming loyalty oaths, something Trump reportedly had wanted from his cabinet picks and department heads, perhaps other appointments like a Supreme Court Justice. Let’s just hope ‘loyalty oaths’ are yet another massive American conspiracy theory. Imagine, a U.S. president demanding loyalty oaths among every federal employee. We still have free speech, thought and ideas, right? Americans who think differently than the U.S. president won’t lose their jobs, be publicly humiliated, or sent to special ‘camps,’ right? (Whistling “The X-Files” theme.)