Fake News and the Deep State have a fruitful relationship.

This kind of behavior by intelligence services isn’t new. It is why they exist.

Why would the Russians try to hack Hillary Clinton or an American political campaign? How would they even go about it? They are merely just a nuclear world power with a rich history of incredibly powerful intelligence services, something like the KGB? Essentially for the same reasons every single functioning sovereign nation would — to collect valuable information and analyze it for future use. If you do not think that the NSA or CIA has engaged in similar, if not much worse, behavior, you are absolutely nuts. Our Intelligence Community, along with most developed nations intelligence services, has power it could have never even dreamed of 15 years ago: cyber-warfare and electronic surveillance.

Now, imagine that you are an intelligence operative working for Russia’s state agency that has been assigned to gather information relevant to the U.S. domestic policy and activities. More specifically, probably, you would be working in a unit for the sole purpose of targeting Hillary Clinton, the former head of the U.S. State Department and leading 2016 U.S. Presidential favorite. Any type of communication or information sent or received by her or her top aides would be critical to understand the inner workings of our government at the highest levels, and assuming that Hillary Clinton would definitely be utilizing an email of some type, it would be a great place to start (the unauthorized private email sever set up by her husband’s aide with little IT experience was a decent clue).

Insert ‘Russia ____ 2016 Elections’

Rep. Seth Moulton (D) on the FakeNewsNetwork casually floating the possibility of WW3

After the exercise I just walked you through, you should likely understand that the entire Russian Meddling/Interference/Hacking is a blatant attempt at re-directing electoral failure and incompetence. The real improper ‘collusion’ is the full-blown campaign between the left and the mainstream media conspiring constantly to remove a democratically elected President from power and demoralize his support base through a barrage of coordinated attacks with Deep State sources feeding the WaPo, CNN, and NYT anonymously (There is much more to this, but for another piece).

There is a legitimate, imminent threat looming from Mueller’s probe as he seems to be bringing the entire roster of swamp operatives onboard. The media and left are doubling down against Trump and his supporters once again. No more playing nice. As Mike Cernovich rightly noted last week, we must play their games. Like Donald J. Trump says, we now fight fire with fire.