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All this clamoring over President Donald Trump’s first State-of-the-Union address by stone-faced-sour Democrats and cheering Republicans will soon die down as this much anticipated U.S. House Intelligence Committee’s four-page memo concerning the fake anti-Trump ‘dossier’ is about to be released to the public without redaction with “100-percent” approval of the president. This document’s release could come at any time.

Mainstream media on Wednesday morning was ablaze with negative coverage of President Trump’s speech to the nation claiming that Trump is comparing DACA kids — mostly young children brought to the USA illegally by their parents — to violent MS13 gang members. It’s just more of the same negativity from the Democrats and the media. There was no sign of future bi-partisanship to solve the problems of today.

President Trump’s speech was right on the money, well delivered and well received across the board with Republicans and Trump’s base.

Anyone looking for a spark of the old Kennedy charm was disappointed Tuesday night as Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) gave the official Democratic response that was broadcast to the nation following President Trump’s address. Kennedy looked like an inexperienced college kid as he spoke to a couple-hundred Democrats in Fall River, Mass. His supporters clapped and cheered but surprisingly he was not the least bit inspirational as his words fell flat as pancakes at Ihop.

Meanwhile, this memo asserts that a proven fake ‘dossier’ or report containing false information about the Trump campaign team colluding with Russian entities during the 2016 presidential election was used as the basis for the Obama administration’s U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtaining surveillance warrants to wiretap Trump Tower to spy on Trump’s campaign activities. Not much is known about the actual content of the memo, but what is known is the Hillary Clinton campaign for president and the Democratic National Committee paid $12-million in ‘opposition research’ to a group named FUSION GPS to compose the fake ‘dossier’ that apparently was also the basis to appoint Special Counsel Robert Mueller to take over the Russia-Trump collusion investigation which is still in progress.

News reports say FBI Director Christopher Wray made a rare Sunday visit to the U.S. Capitol Building and read the contents of the secret memo followed by another unnamed senior FBI official. Then on Monday senior DOJ officials were given the opportunity to view the memo at DOJ headquarters before the memo was delivered to President Trump for his decision to release the memo or not.

But right after Wray saw the memo the FBI’s long-time Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was “removed from office.” McCabe had come under scrutiny by Republicans and President Trump for a long list of “conflicts of interests” involving his wife receiving $700,000 from the Clinton campaign for president and keeping it quiet. Plus McCabe was directly involved with former FBI Director Jim Comey’s decision in 2016 not to bring changes against Clinton involving her email scandal because she was running for president.

“If you’re interested whether or not the dossier was used in court proceedings, whether or not it was funded by political opponents, you’ll want to see the memo,” said Rep. Tray Gowdy (R-SC) in a TV news interview Tuesday. Gowdy is a member of the House Intelligence Committee responsible for composing the memo. He has not released any further details.

McCabe had been scheduled to retire later in 2018, but apparently this memo Wray read Sunday was the straw that broke the camel’s back and it was a quick boot not to return. Say goodbye, McCabe. The White House has denied any role in McCabe’s ouster. Wray showed McCabe the door.

Previously the House Intelligence Committee had voted along party lines to release the memo pending the president’s decision. This ‘vote to release’ has caused a storm of media frenzy, party-line arguing and scorching controversy.

Depending on who you listen to, some news reports say DOJ Deputy Director Rod Rosenstein is next in line for a possible quick departure. Because new Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself in any matters involving Trump’s or Clinton’s campaigns for president in 2016, it became necessary for Rosenstein to oversee Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe.

Before Rosenstein became DOJ Deputy Director last year, it’s noteworthy to remember Rosenstein was a former DOJ employee in the 1990s working for then Assistant Attorney General Mueller. Rosenstein could have appointed many qualified investigators to take over the ongoing Trump-Russia investigation conducted by former FBI Director James Comey, who Trump fired soon after taking office – but he didn’t. Rosenstein picked Mueller, why?

If this secret memo reveals that this fake ‘dossier’ was used as a basis for Comey’s original investigation turned over to Mueller, than Mueller’s entire investigation has truly been a political “hoax” and “witch hunt” as President Trump has claimed from the beginning.

If this secret memo reveals that this fake ‘dossier’ was used as a basis for surveillance warrants to be abused by political opponents and wrongly issued by the DOJ/FBI then the public will finally see this “Secret Society” does indeed run deep.

It’s certainly a strange time when even the so-called ‘free unbiased press’ calls for a government document on possible corruption to be suppressed. Sure seems like a house of cards is about to implode into murky, swampy quicksand without a rope.

About the Author Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member.