Streetwise Professor

So every election night, all the broadcast and cable news networks project the winners. Most nights, it’s about a 50-50 split between Republicans and Democrats, give or take. But when it comes to the winners of projection, the Democrats have it in a landslide.

Here are examples, just from the last week.

Hillary Clinton said if it were anybody other than Trump, they would be in jail. This from the woman who if she was anybody other than Hillary Clinton would have been jailed in the 80s, the 90s, and the 10s. I guess she rested up in the noughties.

Next item: the latest ongoing freakout is about Giuliani talking about going to Kyiv to encourage the Ukrainians to investigate then-VP Joe Biden’s pressuring the government there to get rid of a prosecutor that was investigating, among other things, a business that his son Hunter was involved with. How dare he (and Trump) attempt to get a foreign government to dig dirt on a political opponent!

Er. . . the DNC/Clinton campaign actively worked with the Ukrainian government to dig dirt on Trump in 2016. Some woman whose name comes right off the Taco Bell menu–Andrea Chalupa–was the liaison between the DNC and the Ukrainians.

We are now learning that the enterprising Hunter profited from private equity deals in China (with no previous experience in either private equity or China, let alone in both) weeks after accompanying his father to the country aboard Air Force Two. I’m sure his success in markets as difficult for foreigners and as different as Ukraine and China are a testament to Hunter’s awesome business skillz, rather than any family connections, right?

Compare this with the hyperventilating over Trumps failed attempts to do business in Russia. Beyond putting on a Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, I mean. But those attempts supposed mean that Putin OWNS Trump. Owns him, I say! But there is no quid pro quo involved when Joe makes the rain for his boy, right?

The Mueller report has done little to stem the hysteria in the most feverish quarters of The Swamp about Trump’s alleged collusion with the Russians to, among other things, dig dirt on Hillary. For instance, the egregious James Comey (more about him a future post!), for example, said last week that he still believes that “it’s possible Russia has leverage over Trump.”

Er . . . WTF was the Steele dossier, but an American presidential campaign hiring a foreigner (through two cutouts, no less) who colluded with foreigners (Russians, no less) to spread dirt on Trump?

Then there’s this, from the appalling Susan Hennessey at Lawfare:

Does anyone really doubt that Trump would love to have the FBI investigating his opponent during the campaign? Does anyone doubt that he would abuse his office in attempting to initiate or direct such an investigation?

Uhm . . . this is EXACTLY what her heroes–she is basically a polyp in Comey’s colon–did in 2016.

I could go on. And on. And on. But the basic point is that I don’t have to project the winner of projection. The results are already in. You can pretty much bank on this: whatever the Democrats say about Trump is true about them. In spades.