When President Obama assumed the Presidency of the United States in 2009, he ushered in changes that reflected his desire to, as he stated it, to totally transform the United States. The decorum of the Oval Office in the White House was converted to reflect this change, including a carpet bordered with deep quotations that would orient the philosophy of the new administration, devoted as it was to a social justice revolution. The new President was particularly fond of one of the carpet quotations he had selected that he attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr:

The arc of the moral Universe is long , but it bends toward Justice

Unfortunately like so many other things in the Obama Administration, the surface veneer did not reflect real life facts. It turns out that the author of the quote was not Dr. King, as Obama had convinced himself, but rather , an abolitionist Unitarian minister, Theodore Parker, who proffered the remark in a collection of sermons in 1853.

Oh well, the point was that eventually justice wins out. An errant fact was not going to upset the narrative of the administration, which was, as the press insisted on telling us – scandal free – in its drive to transform us. Well maybe that wasn’t quite true either. It may well turn out that the Obama Administration, particularly through its national security and justice arms, determined to achieve the ultimate in scandalous behavior, the undermining of a political opponent, Trump, prevent his electoral victory, and when not successful in that, engage a sustained effort to weaken and destroy his Presidency. The famous e-mail by FBI agent Peter Stroch to his lover FBI lawyer Lisa Page referencing the presence of an “insurance policy” just in case Trump somehow achieved election, becomes more clear this past weekend as the Inspector General of the Justice Department, Michael Horowitz released his report on the interactions of FBI Director James Comey and then President elect Trump, and beyond, in the first few months of the nascent new Presidency. Contrary to Comey’s comment to Trump that he personally was not under investigation for any suspected collusion with Russian involvement in the election, The IG found Comey’s actions in obtaining, recording, and disseminating memos regarding his interactions with Trump squarely put Trump at the center of an ongoing investigation designed to entrap him, and lay the seeds for criminal inditement or impeachment. James Comey wasn’t attempting to serve the new president. He was attempting to get rid of him.

As Andy McCarthy, a former prosecutor who has intensely followed the process since the beginning , states, it is clear now that the fix was in, and Obama Administration officials were working to “short circuit ” the Trump Presidency. Unlike Obama’s errant misquote, this would be really, really bad if true, and as the wheels come off the Trump collusion narrative, it is looking more and more true. We may be looking at one of the worst scandals in the history of America democracy – the “insurance policy” designed to achieve a coup.

The first deep dive by the IG towards malfeasance focuses upon a Director of the once sacrosanct Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey. Comey, a politico director with an extreme level of self satisfied behavior, first worked his magic to bury a devastating security breach that involved Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the destruction of thousands of secure government emails that were likely exposed through her malfeasance to hostile foreign powers. Having determined on his own to function as prosecutor and jury (likely with guidance from his superiors), he pre-emptively determined to find her untoward actions to be below the threshold requiring prosecution. Now comes the IG’s ire for Comey’s deliberate effort to somehow link a Presidential candidate to a Russian spy network that had managed to inject through a former British spy, a dossier of scurrilous stories, paid for by Trump’s opponent Clinton in their effort to obtain “opposition research”, then pan it off as fact with the rest of the Obama national security apparatus through three grand juries of the FISA court, allowing phone taps and other counter intelligence actions against of Trump, and drive an investigation that would lead to a special prosecutor who spent more than two years hampering and pressuring the new President attempting to get him to crack. Turns out the ‘scandal free’ administration may have attempted the ultimate scandal, a coup. Comey was actively participating as the tip of the spear.

The sad fact is that the President’s pugnacious nature and looseness with the language of facts played directing into the hands of coup leaders and their full blown accomplices, the elite media. For two years, the media pounded Trump like a piñata, buying in to the fallacious narrative, and brutally driving it every day in their own obscene effort to get rid of Trump.

Only a bull dog like Trump could have survived the onslaught. The larger question is whether our constitutional democracy can survive the onslaught to our bedrock principles of a free, unencumbered, disinterested press and civil service that believes in democratic institutions and rule of law. The last several decades, and particularly the last several years show the narrative wants to demolish our precious, hard won constitutional protections against such onslaughts.

Well, maybe as Dr. King said, or more correctly as Dr. King paraphrased what Minister Parker said, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Hopefully as more light falls on the subject of this treacherous episode in our nation’s story, the bend for all the willing culprits, will be towards real justice. We will see what our decaying institutions do with all the sunshine, as the culprits begin to scatter.