The Red Thread Quotes

“We learned that David Kramer pleaded the Fifth on February 22, 2018, roughly three weeks after President Trump declassified the sensational House Intelligence Committee memo. This four-page-memo[227] reported that the uncorroborated Steele dossier — bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC, augmented by Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal, moved along by Kramer and McCain (among others) — “formed an essential part” of the application the FBI and DOJ presented to the FISA court to gain authorization to spy, first, on the Trump campaign, and then the Trump presidency.”
― Diana West, The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy

“Trump’s connection to Peale, then, not only informs the Comey-Niebuhr/Trump-Peale divide, but also throws into relief the larger national cleavage between Global Elites and the America First “Deplorables.” This is another old war in America”
― Diana West, The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy