If there is one really good thing about Donald Trump being president, it is that he has helped clarify how much I should trust other people.  For anyone really paying attention, Trump has helped expose the shills for the establishment.

It’s not that Trump himself isn’t, at least part of the time, a shill for the establishment. He has obviously surrounded himself with some horrible people, especially in the realm of foreign policy.  But because Trump has a tendency to be unpredictable and to sometimes disrupt the status quo, the establishment fears him and will do almost anything to take him down.

You can be opposed to Trump without having an irrational hatred of him and his rhetoric. There is a difference between opposing Trump policies and having Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).  TDS means hating Trump and opposing him no matter what the issue.  It means not being able to think clearly whenever Trump’s name is mentioned in a conversation.

Thanks to Trump, he has exposed another shill for the deep state.  That is Congressman Justin Amash, who has announced his support for impeachment proceedings against Trump for possible obstruction of justice in the Russia collusion investigation.

Amash is considered by some to be the most libertarian member of Congress.  When he first entered Congress, some were saying that he was another Ron Paul.  I have never bought into this.  While I have agreed with most positions taken by Amash, there has always been something off about him.  I can’t always pinpoint it, but I can pick up little subtleties with language. He is certainly not as forceful as Ron Paul.

I have now lost all respect for Justin Amash.  He is acting as a shill for the establishment and deep state.  I am not sure how intentional it is on Amash’s part.  I think he is just trying to stand out and get some attention.  He has done that.  He has received some praise from the left and the rest of the anti-Trumpers.

I don’t simply oppose Amash for opposing Trump.  I oppose Amash because of his reasoning for opposing Trump.  The Russia-gate story is a hoax.  There is no evidence that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election in any significant way.  We are supposed to believe that perhaps $100,000 or so of Facebook ads (that weren’t even particularly pro Trump) threw the election in his favor.  If only Hillary Clinton had known how to be this effective with hundreds of millions of dollars at her disposal, along with most of the establishment media in her corner.

I see a few of my Canadian Facebook friends post something about American politics.  Can I now say that the Canadians are interfering with U.S. elections?  The whole thing really is just as ridiculous as it sounds.

Obstructing a Hoax

There was no evidence presented of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.  It is just assumed that Russia interfered in the election, but there is absolutely no evidence of this.  The exposure of emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was likely an inside job.  It probably came from a Bernie Sanders supporter who knew they were getting the shaft from the DNC and Clinton campaign.

It would be nice if Mueller would share the basis for why the investigation started.  The reason we know about why the investigation started is from the Steele Dossier, which was put together by Christopher Steele, who was working for Fusion GPS, which is a company that was working for the Clinton campaign.

The Russia story is a hoax.  It was put on by the deep state to undermine Trump, to make an excuse for him winning the election, and to keep tensions high with Russia on behalf of the military-industrial complex.

Even if Trump did obstruct the investigation, I don’t really care, and I don’t really blame him. And I don’t really care if there is a federal law that he violated because most of the federal laws are unconstitutional and unlibertarian.

If the police are framing you for a murder that you didn’t commit, and you try to obstruct their framing, are you guilty of obstruction of justice?  Who is really the criminal?

Amash – Gullible or Establishment Hack

Justin Amash is completely buying into the fake Russia story, or at least he is pretending to buy into it.

If he really believes that Russia hacked the elections, and he believes that the people investigating Trump are honest, then he is just completely gullible.  He is so naïve, he shouldn’t be trusted in power. He certainly shouldn’t be trusted by libertarians to promote the cause of liberty when he is acting as a defender of the establishment.  He is only serving to defend the deep state and to risk inflamed tensions with Russia.

Otherwise, Amash is just another lying politician who is serving up some rhetoric to promote himself.

Either way, we can’t trust Amash if he is going to buy into an establishment narrative that is so obviously false.  He is not the only supposed libertarian who is being exposed by this story.

Judge Andrew Napolitano has also been promoting the establishment narrative that Russia hacked our elections without questioning the allegations.  He if trying to follow the letter of the law, as if libertarians should do such a thing when the law is so corrupt.  He, of all people, should know better that there is often a lack of justice, especially when it comes to federal law and the intelligence agencies.

When Amash and Napolitano and other “libertarians” talk about the Mueller report and the possibility of obstruction of justice by Trump, just remember the people prosecuting this war against Trump.  Remember who Robert Mueller really is.

Anyone who thinks Trump should be impeached for obstructing justice is just acting as a defender of the evil establishment.

Amash and Napolitano could advocate impeaching Trump for bombing Syria or starving little kids in Yemen, but that’s not what they’re doing.  Instead, they are helping to promote a fake story put on by the establishment, and they are helping out the military-industrial complex by promoting more bad relations with Russia.