President Trump took the fake-news media to the woodshed yesterday, excoriating the deceitful level of animosity directed towards his administration.

He’s doubling down, and the only question is how the forces arrayed against him will continue their attacks…and they WILL continue.

‘Goliath’ is not just media…it’s Democrats, their embedded agency partisans, and sadly, some establishment Republicans as well.

Behind the President are the American people who elected him. It’s a grim task, and there will be blood.

We can only hope it will be the blood of the ‘business-as-usual’ crowd.

An article in Investor’s Business Daily generated interest in the question of why any approval poll includes an opposition party, when, by definition, they don’t approve?

The opposition party OPPOSES the elected person…they voted against him.

Wouldn’t it be more important for a President or Congressman to be aware of how he/she stacks up with the people who actually voted for them in the first place?

After all, they already know the opposition’s view.

‘Fake’ news is lying, the Left’s invective is flying, and it’s really getting crazy.

Their hostility toward President Trump is so hair-trigger, if he walked on water across the Potomac tomorrow, the sham-stream media headline would be…

…’President Trump Can’t Swim!’

You wouldn’t know it from reading sham-stream media reports, but word is the Natl Security Advisor (ret. Gen. Flynn) who just resigned was a registered Democrat…

…who served in the Obama administration previously.

Odd, isn’t it…wonder why no ‘news’ outlet cares to report that?

And on that resignation topic, looks like some Obama people weren’t happy with the General, who was an outspoken critic of the Iran deal’s secret agreements.

Must be pretty outrageous stuff, to justify a shadow government hit-program.

We suspect when those secret agreements are exposed, fur is going to fly.

Democrat fur.

Nothing drives the Left crazier than proof that Republicans can govern better.

Left-wingers would rather the Middle East went up in a mushroom cloud than see President Trump work out an arrangement with Russia to stop or slow the chaos.

For all their anti-Russia rhetoric, that nation is a huge factor in the region’s mess…

…thanks to Barack Obama’s asleep-at-the-switch foreign policy.

Why, at a time when it’s essential to work out a diplomatic solution with this Russian piece of the puzzle, are Democrats more intent on throwing fuel on the fire?

Why demonize Russia, or undermine any of Mr. Trump’s efforts to work with that country, to calm the tensions in one of the most volatile regions in the world?

Why use this ‘fake news’ garbage, potentially riling Russia, with so much at stake?

Answer: they can’t stand the thought of a SUCCESSFUL Republican effort.

Talk about unhinged.

If every federal agency started their cuts by dismissing the last 8 years of hiring, the Democrat-friendly leakers in each organization would be the first out the door.

Our U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact, or a death warrant.

While it does call for freedom of the press, it does not mean that such freedom will be inviolable even if it means jeopardizing America’s national security.

Violating federal law – especially where national security is involved – is serious.

The ‘senior U.S. gov’t official/s’ involved in leaking national security communications willfully broke the law (18 U.S.C. 798)…as did the media that willingly published it.

The law is there for a reason…failure to properly prosecute in its enforcement would be a clear message to all that national security is no longer an important issue.

(On top of that, our allies will not trust often critical cross-agency cooperation if we’re not able to demonstrate our intelligence agencies are under control.)

Besides, we’ve had enough of a previous administration trampling rule-of-law.

And the law doesn’t differentiate between leakers, or those who publish leaks.

Publishers of such classified material who refuse to identify leakers aid and abet such unlawful activity, and as such, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent.

As Fox News’s Jarrett points out “…the statute itself clearly criminalizes the publishing of classified material…” but then says prosecuting the publisher is wrong.

We disagree. Federal laws in place to protect our national security shouldn’t be toyed with, and as noted above, the Constitution isn’t a suicide pact.

After all, would publishers of secret American troop movements be protected? What about names of covert intelligence operatives, or missions currently being worked?

Clearly, freedom of the press cannot be more important than the lives of our military, or our intelligence operatives in foreign lands, far from any U.S. protection.

The only thing they have to rely on are the federal laws protecting them.

When they aid and abet violators of laws protecting national security, prosecute.

Prosecute fully, ANY and ALL involved in the publishing of classified material.

And, yes, Hillary, that means you as well.

With a belief that politicized operatives inside the NSA are thought to be the ‘leaks’ on Trump administration communications, looks like a hardball approach is needed.

Days before leaving office, Obama widened info-sharing on NSA intell-gathering, which got even more politicized intelligence agency groups access to leakable info.

Fine…if Left-wing operatives are embedded in the NSA, it’s time to weed them out.

President Trump would be well-advised to cut loose every new hire in that agency since Jan 20, 2009, the day Obama was inaugurated and his guys started hiring.

(Besides, Mr. Trump ran on a campaign of govt cutbacks…last in, first out, right?)

Failing that, the only other alternative is to closely monitor those hires.

National security concerns justify the act, one way or the other, because the leaks involved reveal sensitive information is being mishandled by partisan operatives.

Time to either start firing…or start spooking…the spooks.

An anonymous insider advises major news groups are funded by terror groups that pay advertising dollars to drive an agenda to undermine the GOP administration.

No evidence has been provided, but the seriousness of the charge demands that an investigation be initiated by a neutral party to determine its validity.

This is the way ‘fake’ news gets started folks.

We hope CNN and the NY Times will openly cooperate with any investigation.

What if the GOP saw the growing American populist outrage pre-election, and actually recruited Mr Trump to be a Republican stalking horse?

The logic is they realized only an establishment outsider could beat Clinton…

…and an outsider could take the heat while dismantling Obama’s agenda…

…and if the Republicans themselves voiced opposition to Mr Trump, it would pull more Independents and Democrat voters from Hillary.

What if, after a certain point where a victorious President Trump has taken the partisan slings and arrows while destroying Obama’s policies…

…thereby inoculating other Republicans…

…he decides to resign, say, for ‘health’ reasons?

Are Republicans this crafty?

Only time will tell.