Why Conrad Black thinks Republicans will hold the House

Billionaire newspaperman Conrad Black stands tallest among Trumpologists (sorry, Scott Adams) in part because Black knows Trump personally.

Black contends Republicans will keep Congress in November because of Donald Trump.

The president is draining the swamp, keeping his promises, and overseeing an economy recovering from nearly 30 years of presidents not named Reagan.

Ben Weingarten of Encounter Books interviewed Black, who spoke about the trumped-up charges against Trump.

Black said, "I don’t think the Democrats will win the House. I think what will happen is that the President will carefully assemble his health care reform that the Republican Party is pretty much agreed upon, and an immigration reform that it’s pretty much agreed upon, put those out very firmly to the voters, stand on his high economic growth and continuing excellent economic numbers, and order the release by the Justice Department, relatively close to the midterm elections, of everything to do with the collusion investigation, to reveal in its ghastly infirmity the absolute vacuity of that argument, the falsity, the malice and the defamatory destructiveness of the entire argument that he or anyone closely associated with him ever colluded with a foreign power to rig an American election.

"Just administer a bone-crushing defeat to the Democrats, and their echo chamber in the national media. And do it right… just coming into the midterm election campaign. And I think he will gain seats in both the House and the Senate."

In a column, Black was even more positive.

"Before we get to the first week in November, I think approximately the following events will occur. There will be a four-power agreement between the two Koreas, China, and the United States that the Korean peninsula will, as verified by believably rigorous inspection, be denuclearized and it will be agreed that the Peninsula will be reunified only by spontaneous consent between the two Koreas without outside influence. Kim Jong Un can claim this is a victory of legitimization, but the removal of the North Korean nuclear threat will be a clear victory for President Trump also," he wrote.

I concur. Let Un save face. A de-nuked Korea is worth it.

"Hysteria about trade wars will settle down, and it will become clear that the administration is negotiating toward trade arrangements that do not yield such lopsided deficits for the United States as do the present arrangements with China, Japan, and Mexico. Everyone will see that the Russian-collusion argument, which was the Holy Grail of the Democratic party and the press for 18 months, is a gigantic canard," Black also wrote.

If Republican gains transpire, both parties will get a comeuppance. With so many Republicans retiring, those seats held and others gained will most likely go to Trump supporters. They will fire Paul Ryan and replace him with Steve Scalise, whom Democrats already tried to assassinate.

And Democrats will learn the price one pays for failure in the game of regicicide.

We must send traitors such as John Brennan, Susan Rice, and Jim Comey to prison for corrupting our national security system to spy on the political opposition. Such punishment will improve the odds against someone else trying this.

They are traitors. Their diversion of security to their petty politics left us vulnerable to an attack.

My head still says, Republicans lose the House but never bet against Donald John Trump.