My warning to petulant Veruca Salt liberals screaming to impeach President Trump: Oompa Loompas always have the last laugh
BY Piers Morgan
Daily Mail
April 22, 2019
One of my favourite scenes from Charlie And The Chocolate Factory features appalling spoiled brat Veruca Salt screaming at her father: ‘Hey. Daddy, I want an Oompa Loompa! I want you to get me an Oompa Loompa right away!’
The pathetically weak Mr Salt tries to mollify her: ‘All right, Veruca, all right. I’ll get you one before the day is out.’
But this is no solace for Veruca who shrieks dementedly: ‘I WANT AN OOMPA LOOMPA NOW!’
Donald Trump’s opponents right now remind me of Veruca Salt.
First, they’re behaving like hysterically deluded, petulant and entitled brats.
Second, they crave getting their Oompa Loompa, which is what many of them call Trump because they say his orange-shade face tan resembles that of Willy Wonka’s factory workers, and they’re not prepared to wait for the 2020 election to get him.
Third, if they continue down this route, then they will all end up in the political equivalent of the garbage chute that propels Veruca into muck-encrusted oblivion.
The Mueller Report confirmed what President Trump has been vehemently protesting for two years – that neither he, nor any of his 2016 campaign team, colluded with Russia to fix the election.
Mueller’s conclusion about collusion was unequivocal: ‘The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.’
It was a complete exoneration of the central charge against Trump since he shocked the world by winning the White House, namely that he only did so by fraudulent and indeed, treasonable means.
This allegation was explicitly why Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel in the first place on May 17, 2017.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced then that Mueller was charged with investigating ‘any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump.’
Trump responded at the time by saying: ‘As I have stated many times, a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know – there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity.’
He was right.
It did.
Yet Mueller’s confirmation of no collusion has led to the mother of all meltdowns by Trump’s opponents – fuelled by seething Democrats, horrified liberal celebrities, and an incredulous Trump-loathing media.
All of them had spent the past two years screaming ‘COLLUSION!’ from the rooftops, creating a wall of Russia noise deliberately designed to end Trump’s presidency.
Yet it turned out the only collusion was between all these anti-Trump factions, ganging up to persuade the American people that their president had only been elected because he actively worked with the Russians to fix the election.
It’s hard to imagine a more heinous charge against any American president than that they conspired with an enemy power to defraud their own people.
No wonder Trump was enraged and spat blood about it on a daily basis about it.
Wouldn’t you if you faced that kind of concerted campaign to destroy you and paint you as a traitor?
One of the many pathetic responses to the Mueller Report has been the media’s attempt to justify its own erroneous reporting on Trump and Russia.
‘We’ve been vindicated!’ has been the universal rally-cry from journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post to anchors at CNN and MSNBC. ‘All the stories we reported about this scandal have been proved true!
Really?
It’s certainly correct that many of the stories surrounding the Russian collusion allegations, some of which Trump denied at the time, were confirmed as true by Mueller’s investigators.
But that’s like a crime reporter boasting that everything he wrote about the circumstances surrounding a crime was true, apart from the actual crime itself.
The bottom line is that the ‘COLLUSION!’ they all incessantly screamed about never actually happened.
What did happen is a lot of dodgy, mostly unconnected behaviour by Trump cronies that led to a series of indictments and prison sentences.
From Manafort and Gates to Cohen to Flynn, numerous minnows around the whale were caught cheating or lying.
There is no defence for what they did, and Trump can rightly be criticised for lacking judgement in employing so many people who committed crimes.
But none of them were convicted of any offences involving Russian collusion.
As for Trump himself, he doesn’t emerge from the Mueller Report smelling of fragrant roses, as he would have us believe.
A lot of HIS behaviour, whilst falling short of criminal, was seriously unbecoming of the President of the United States.
But when it comes to obstruction of justice, I simply say this: how can Trump be guilty of obstructing justice into a crime we now know he didn’t commit?
Oh, I know that technically, legally, he can.
Though the two top lawyers in America, Attorney General Barr and his deputy Rosenstein, both determined that he didn’t.
But in the court of common sense, I don’t think any fair-minded person (if there is such a thing on Trump?) would convict the President of trying to obstruct an investigation into something he didn’t do.
It’s no excuse for his erratic and unsavoury conduct, but one obvious explanation for it is that Trump was so genuinely incensed by the monumental lie being levelled at him – one he believed might end his presidency – that he lashed out at anyone and everyone who he believed might support or encourage that lie.
That would be entirely in keeping with his personality, and of course, entirely ironic given Trump himself was found to have repeatedly lied by Mueller.
BUT, and it’s a big BUT, none of this changes the fact that Trump was cleared of any collusion.
He didn’t conspire with the Russians, he didn’t use them to fix his win, he didn’t betray his country.
Not that you would know this judging by the behaviour of Trump’s opponents since the report was published.
Neither the New York Times nor Washington Post, both of whom won Pulitzer prizes for their reporting on the story, bothered to mention this fact in their headlines the next day.
Isn’t that a staggering, damning indictment of their bias?
CNN and MSNBC, once they got over their collective anaphylactic shock at Trump’s acquittal, swiftly pivoted from obsessing about collusion to obsessing about obstruction, without so much as a whisper of apology for conning their viewers for so long.
Liberal celebrities, all the usual tiresome suspects from Rob Reiner to Chelsea Handler and Alyssa Milano, have carried on screaming that Trump’s guilty of collusion anyway.
And, the Democrats are now working themselves into a fevered lathe of excitement about pushing for Trump to now be impeached.
To which, if I were Trump, I’d say ‘BRING IT ON!’
Because such a campaign will fail so long as the Republicans hold the Senate, and it will simply allow Trump to gleefully play the oppressed victim of the lying, biased Establishment as he heads into 2020.
One thing we know about Oompa Loompas, is that they always have the last laugh.
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