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There are several more indications today that Democrat leadership may finally be accepting the fact that believing their own hype and smoke isn’t going to help them much towards winning elections at any levels.

While they’re trying to promote biased anti-Trump poll results with support from the mainstream media, factual evidence is evidently beginning to sink in for them.  

In that regard, “Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance.” That’s a full two-point increase from yesterday, with three more days of travel yet to come for him.  

Whereas irrational behavior, such as continual pursuit of unfounded claims about misbehavior on Trump’s part, seems to be a fruitless effort for Democrat leadership they’re now trying to slow calls for impeachment as reported by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns @nytimes.com

According to the authors: “Most congressional Democrats are still wary about calling for Mr. Trump to be frog-marched out of the West Wing. The expectations of their base, they believe, are outrunning what is feasible as long as Republicans control both chambers of Congress.

“The fear, Democratic officials say, is that they will invite the sort of backlash from their base that Republicans got for overpromising about what was possible while President Barack Obama was in office. They argue that methodically building a case — obtaining and revealing any memos or White House recordings, for example — is the soundest approach if they are to bring Republicans along.” 

However, while the Times presents a rationale for easing-off based on the Democrats determining that Congressional Republican majority’s are too difficult to overcome without amassed incriminating evidence, that isn’t likely the situation at all. Because, as the individual Democrat witch-hunts unfold, it’s Democrat's themselves who are being discovered as guilty party’s.     

As written by John Solomon and Sara Carter @circa.com/politics today: “The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community.

“More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA’s so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011, according to one classified internal report reviewed by Circa.” 

The normally supportive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court  court “censured administration officials, saying the failure to disclose the extent of the violations earlier amounted to an ‘institutional lack of candor’ and that the improper searches constituted a ‘very serious Fourth Amendment issue,’ according to a recently unsealed court document dated April 26, 2017. 

While the "admitted violations undercut one of the primary defenses that the intelligence community and Obama officials have used in recent weeks to justify their snooping into incidental NSA intercepts about Americans,” officials like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice have argued their activities were legal under the so-called minimization rule changes Obama made, and that the intelligence agencies were strictly monitored to avoid abuses.” 

Despite the official's denials, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) told Fox News “there was an apparent effort under the Obama Administration to increase the number of unmaskings of Americans.” 

"If we determine this to be true, this is an enormous abuse of power," Paul said. “This will dwarf all other stories.” 

“There are hundreds and hundreds of people,” Paul added. 

In addition: “The American Civil Liberties Union said the newly disclosed violations are some of the most serious to ever be documented and strongly call into question the U.S. intelligence community’s ability to police itself and safeguard American’s privacy as guaranteed by the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections against unlawful search and seizure.” 

All of which adds to the growing mass of information compiling toward proving Democrat culpability in cases which they instituted to implicate Trump, and as many other Republicans as possible. However, virtually all of those attempts have begun to implode as the underlying truths continue to surface. None of which would have happened if the Democrat presidential candidate had been elected. 

And then, Andrew O'Reilly wrote @FoxNews.com about the upcoming G-7 Summit in Taormina, Sicily where: “Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom – are all strong supporters of the Paris [Climate] Agreement, as are the other 188 countries that have signed it, and the idea of the U.S. withdrawing from the accord has become a global concern. The U.S. is the world’s second-largest emitter of carbon dioxide and its adherence to the emissions-cutting deal penned under the Obama administration is seen, by some, as vital to keeping other nations in compliance.” 

Doing some quick research quickly disclosed why those nations would most certainly be concerned about the U.S. possibly withdrawing from the agreement, whereas according to Wikipedia: “In early March 2016, the Obama administration gave a $500 million grant to the "Green Climate Fund" as "the first chunk of a $3 billion commitment made at the Paris climate talks.” 

Which means that if the U.S. really leaves, the deepest pockets of the bunch whose checks will never bounce is what’s really lost. Because, when it comes to the actual climate, Mother Nature will take care of it, just like she always does. 

That’s it for today folks. 

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