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| Abraham Lincoln, 1860. |
CHECK!
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| Ambassador Yovanovitch testified under oath. Would Rudy or Trump ever risk that? |
One defendant, Dmitry Firtash, aka “Dmytro Firtash” and “DF,” 48, a Ukrainian national, was arrested March 12, 2014, in Vienna, Austria. Firtash was released from custody on March 21, 2014, after posting 125 million euros (approximately $174 million) bail, and he pledged to remain in Austria until the end of extradition proceedings.
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| Trump and Epstein in the good old days. |
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| Professor Turley captures GOP hearts (and kidneys, too). |
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| This impeachment is about safeguarding the rule of law. |
FINALLY, Trump’s defense of his July 25 call (see: call memorandum) takes an absurdist new turn. It suddenly dawns on Donald J. that what he really meant when he said, “I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it,” was this. The “us” meant the “United States.”
So, later when he said…
Mr. Giuliani is a highly
respected man. He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would
like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney
General. Rudy very much knows what’s happening and he is a very capable guy. If
you could speak to him that would be great.
And then said…
The other thing, There’s a lot of talk about
Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to
find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be
great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can
look into it... It sounds horrible to me.
Trump wanted us to understand he was only thinking about how much the “United States” would like it if the President of Ukraine would talk to his personal lawyer. That would be Rudy, who had previously made it clear that he had only one client, Donald J. Trump. And what the “United States” would really like would be an investigation into Hunter Biden. In fact, the “United States” was clamoring for that. Also, the “United States,” not Trump, thought it was horrible that Vice President Biden stopped an investigation into corruption in Ukraine. So, it would help the “United States” if the Ukrainians could announce they were investigating before the 2020 election.
(Hey, what a coincidence, that would also help Trump!)
In fact, it was a surprise to this blogger that
the president missed a chance to carry his logic a step farther. He should have
argued that when he said “a lot of people” want to find out about the Biden
family, he didn’t mean himself, and Rudy, and all his political pals, and maybe
even Melania.
He meant the “American people.” That was the only possible interpretation to place on his “perfect” phone call.
The “American people” were clear! If Zelensky wasn’t going to investigate, the “American people” weren’t going to let him meet Trump at the White House. Plus, the “American people” were going to slap a hold on military aid for Ukraine. The “American people” felt so strongly about this Biden stuff, that they were going to deny military aid, even though the Defense Department and National Security Council unanimously agreed that aid should be unfrozen.
Because Ukrainian and U.S. national security interests were at stake.
Yeah. The “American people” really, really wanted foreign interference in a U.S. election AGAIN!
12/8/19: It’s a lazy Sunday at the White House. Trump decides to catch up on his policy reading.
But first….tweeting!
Trump sets a new personal record: firing off 105 tweets and retweets in a single day. It’s Trump at his toilet-flushing craziest. He casually threatens North Korea with attack: “Kim Jong Un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything actually, if he acts in a hostile way.”
Then
he notes that he hopes nuclear war won’t “interfere with the U.S. election in
November.”
He tells his Twitter crew to watch One America News, his new favorite propaganda channel. One show he recommends will totally debunk Shifty Schiff’s impeachment case. The clip he links to his tweet features a hot news babe in a red dress and a guy standing behind her who is shaped like a large barrel.
Trump tweet-quotes Ted Cruz, formerly known as “Lyin’ Ted,” in his defense, which is ironic. Then he claims, “Any president has the authority to investigate corruption.” Which is true. But no president has a right to ask a foreign power to investigate U.S. citizens.
The only reason people want to impeach him he tweets, is that they “hate” him.
In his own defense, the president quotes Jesse Waters of Fox News: “The Democrats are losing it.” Then he quotes Dan Scavino, his White House Director of Media: “The Democrats are losing it.” Next, he cites Jenna Ellis, who has written a book about how Christians can understand the constitutional crisis: “The Dems are desperately searching for grounds of impeachment and they have LOST. They have NOTHING.” And from the head of the Republican National Committee: “Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats want to impeach @realDonaldTrump simply because they don’t like him.” Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona gets some serious Twitter lovin,’ with half a dozen retweets, including, “Democrats’ determination to impeach @realDonaldTrump undercuts our responsibility to govern the nation.” Rep. Devin Nunes, Dan Bognino and Mark Levin of Fox News, the whole gang is here.
Trump even repeats a mistake he has made before:
Trump posts another angry tweet about Chairman Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee. “What he did is illegal,” the president yelps. “Schiff is a corrupt politician and a criminal!”
“The Wall is going up fast!” Trump reminds fans in another tweet.
And
again: “I.G. report out tomorrow. That will be the big story!” (See: 12/9/19.)
The president is really hoping that Inspector General Michael Horowitz is going to tell the whole world that the Russia investigation was a hoax and a witch hunt and a bunch of hokum.
And James Comey should burn in hell.
Sadly, the Tweet Storm continues long into the night. Trump’s thumbs are still tapping, tapping, tapping at his iPhone after midnight. “Witch hunt!” he finally cries out at 12:07 a.m.
With that he clicks off the light and finds rest and refuge in sleep.
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12/9/19: The Inspector General’s report is out regarding the F.B.I. investigation into the Trump 2016 campaign.
This is the report that is going to prove that everyone in the F.B.I. hated Trump, and hated America, and that a coup was plotted. The “Deep State” was so slick in those days that the “Fake News” New York Times was first to announce (March 2, 2015) that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a private email server, in violation of State Department rules.
Way to stick it to Trump!
The coup gathered force on July 5, 2016, when the diabolical James Comey, Director of the F.B.I., announced that Secretary Clinton had been “extremely careless” in handling classified information on her private server.
Another
body blow to…Trump!!
That investigation was closed in July; but Comey decided to knife Trump in the back again, on October 28, 2016. This time, he announced that the investigation had been reopened and Clinton was under suspicion again.
Yes, sticking it to….Trump…just ten days before voters went to the polls!!!
(Sound of diabolical Comey laughter.)
So, now the report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz is out and when the smoke clears, we learn that the F.B.I. was sloppy in investigating Team Trump. Some of the information they relied on proved no good. Some sources were biased. Some were not totally reliable. One agent tampered with an email to make it easier to get a FISA warrant to eavesdrop on Carter Page, a Trump campaign aide. We even learned that Christopher Steele, of Steele dossier fame, had previously had a “personal” relationship with…dun dun dun…Ivanka Trump.
Meaning: Ivanka was part of the “Deep State?”
(Sound of diabolical
Ivanka laughter.)
Politico neatly summed up the main takeaways from the Horowitz report:
First, the F.B.I. did not use the Steele dossier as the basis for opening its Russia investigation as Trump and his allies have long insisted. The first critical warning came from an Australian diplomat.
Second, the F.B.I. was initially “waved off” when it requested a FISA warrant on Page. The F.B.I. then used the Steele dossier to bolster support for a claim that a warrant was justified. According to I.G. Horowitz, he “did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the F.B.I.’s decision to seek FISA authority on Carter Page.”
Third, “Lovely Lisa” Page, as President Trump has often portrayed her, and Peter Strzok, “her lover,” did indeed have an anti-Trump bias. They did not lead the investigation. Bill Priestap, head of the F.B.I. counterintelligence division, was in charge. Priestap used his “exercise of discretion in opening the investigation” and “was in compliance with Department and F.B.I. policies.”
Again, Horowitz “did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced his decision.”
Some agents had a pro-Trump bias. The day after the election a supervisor volunteered to work on any special probe into the Clinton Foundation. He compared Trump’s victory to “watching a Superbowl comeback.”
As Politico explained, another F.B.I. agent wrote, “Trump!” A colleague replied, “Hahahah. Shit just got real.” Then they added a message from a third agent to their thread: “I saw a lot of scared MFers on…[my way to work] this morning. Start looking for new jobs fellas. Haha.”
They all earned their felonies, fair and square.
Fourth, Carter Page was the only Trump official under FISA surveillance. None of the six Trump officials convicted of felonies (so far) were illegally surveilled. They all earned their felonies, fair and square.
Fifth, the F.B.I. had initiated an investigation into Paul Manafort by January 2016, two months before he joined the Trump campaign. Manafort was suspected of money laundering and tax evasion – related to his payments from corrupt Ukrainian politicians and sleazy oligarchs.
Sixth, the first Carter Page warrant was handled badly and at least one F.B.I. lawyer may have committed a crime in altering documents.
Seventh, the F.B.I. dropped Steele as a source, after he revealed information to reporters. But Bruce Ohr, an attorney for the Department of Justice, met with Steele multiple times to discuss findings. The IG’s report finds Ohr “committed consequential errors in judgment.”
Eighth:
The F.B.I. had a source inside the Trump campaign; but that source did not play
a role in the Russia probe.
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AS MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED, different observers studied the glass and decided it was half full, or spilling over with toxic sludge, or insisted that the glass was a bathtub filled with bootleg gin.
NBC went with this headline: “Internal Justice watchdog finds that Russia probe was justified, not biased against Trump.”
Fox News went with: “F.B.I. demons plotted against God’s Chosen One.” (Okay, that’s a joke.)
Attorney General Bill Barr, that pillar of unbiased rectitude, gets mad at Horowitz, who he put in charge, and tells reporters, “The Inspector General’s report now makes clear that the F.B.I. launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken.”
President
Trump goes bonkers, claiming, that the findings are “far worse than
anything I would have even imagined. This was an overthrow of government,” he
howls. “This was an attempted overthrow, and a lot of people were in on it, and
they got caught. They got caught red-handed.”
Actually, the one agent who tampered with documents got caught if anyone did. As for Trump and his pals? George Papadopoulos, General Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Michael Cohen, and Roger Stone have all since been convicted of felonies of different colors, shapes and sizes.
All six lied in service to
Donald J. Trump.
12/10/19: It’s official. Democrats in the House of Representatives have drawn up two articles of impeachment against the President of the United States.
Donald takes the news badly. By the time the sun rises over D.C. on Tuesday, “Fat Nixon” is already up and tweeting. At 7:37 a.m., perhaps holding out hope against hope, he tap-taps:
To
Impeach a President who has proven through results, including producing perhaps
the strongest economy in our country’s history, to have one of the most
successful presidencies ever, and most importantly, who has done NOTHING wrong,
is sheer Political Madness! #2020Election
Okay, he clearly doesn’t understand how impeachment works (see: Bill Clinton and the booming economy of the 90s).
Then reality strikes! Chairman Jerry Nadler of the House Judiciary Committee announces the charges. There are two: “abuse of power” and “obstructing Congress.”
Fat Nixon melts down.
9:56 a.m.:
Nadler just said that I
“pressured Ukraine to interfere in our 2020 Election.” Ridiculous, and he knows
that is not true. Both the President & Foreign Minister of Ukraine said,
many times, that there “WAS NO PRESSURE.” Nadler and the Dems know this, but
refuse to acknowledge!
9:56 a.m. (twenty-five seconds later): WITCH HUNT!
10:07 a.m.:
Shifty Schiff, a totally
corrupt politician, made up a horrible and fraudulent statement, read it to
Congress, and said those words came from me. He got caught, was very
embarrassed, yet nothing happened to him for committing this fraud. He’ll
eventually have to answer for this!
10:10 a.m.: Read the Transcripts! “us” is a reference to USA, not me!
Then, fittingly, Trump goes dead on Twitter. He has a meeting scheduled with an old friend, Sergei Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Russian Federation. Rumor has it, they’re going to raise the flag of friendship over the White House when the meeting ends. A collaboration in 2016 brought victory to Trump and Putin alike. Now to recapture the magic in 2020!
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12/11/19: The House of Representatives takes up articles of impeachment for discussion and “markup.” As before, Republican and Democratic lawmakers appear to be looking at entirely different evidence.
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Forgetting a check for $1 million from a Russian bank account.
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So, let’s go with court documentation. Federal prosecutors have informed a judge that Lev Parnas, who worked with Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine, lied about assets to get a lower bail and should be jailed until trial. At the time of his first hearing in October, Parnas claimed he and his wife had assets of $450,000.
Somehow, they forgot
about a check for $1 million, received in September, from a Russian bank
account.
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DURING DEBATE Wednesday night over the structure and wording of the impeachment articles, Rep. Louie Gohmert decides to defend freedom by naming the whistleblower. Most news media sources refuse to repeat the name – which Gohmert revealed in reading off a list of witnesses he believed should be forced to testify before the House votes on the two articles.
Louie doesn’t care if the whistleblower’s name is revealed because Louie is the president’s lapdog and has no problem fomenting civil war.
Again, the battle lines are likely to break along party lines. But if you like Trump and think the whistleblowers should not be protected, you might want to read the warning letter penned by 70 Inspector Generals, representing agencies across the federal government.
If
you’re a conservative, and truly fear Big Government, as conservatives used to
claim, you should not forget that whistleblowers are often instrumental in revealing the crimes and machinations of
corrupt officials.
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AND IN BONUS NEWS, President Trump holds a Hanukkah Party at the White House, which is a fine idea. It is not a fine idea to allow Pastor Robert Jeffress to speak. First, Trump calls Jeffress a “tremendous faith leader.”
Jeffress returns the favor, calling Donald “the most pro-faith president in history.”
The
problem is that Jeffress has insulted almost every other religion represented
at the party, except Zoroastrians. We have made note of this before, but he believes
Mormons
are a cult. He has labeled the Catholic Church “the genius of Satan.” As
for Islam, you figure he doesn’t like Muslims, whose religion he calls “evil,”
“violent” and “false.” Jeffress doesn’t like Hindus or Buddhists either. But
this is a Hanukkah event. You’d have to assume an Evangelical firebrand, who
has made it clear he believes all Jews will someday burn in Perdition, might
not be the choice of “the most pro-faith president in history” to speak.
Then again, Trump doesn’t really know much about religion. Or history, or government, or science.
Or anything else.
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12/13/19: Exhaustion sets in; the House Judiciary Committee advances two articles of impeachment. On both, 23 Democrats vote “yes,” and 17 Republicans vote “no.” There is plenty of hypocrisy in such a party-line result. And Republicans and Democrats can cite examples of colleagues taking diametrically different positions in 1998, when Bill Clinton was impeached.
Look,
I’m a flaming liberal. But I’m not blind. Or deaf. Or dumb. And I don’t hate
America, either, despite what President Trump or his most loyal supporters seem
to believe. Trump deserves to be impeached. He needs to be impeached, even if
the Senate won’t remove him. His campaign in 2016 had dozens of contacts
with Russian agents offering help against Hillary Clinton. It doesn’t
matter if Clinton had glaring flaws. It doesn’t matter what her missing emails were
about. The Trump campaign happily pursued Russian assistance in a U.S.
election.
This past June, Trump said in an interview that he would take dirt on an opponent if a foreign country offered again. He said he would.
He didn’t stutter.
Rep. Adam Schiff didn’t kick him in the groin and make him say he’d welcome help. Trump said it.
He would take help.
There’s only one American he wants to keep safe: himself.
He said he’d take it from “Norway,” which sounds more benign. Later he said China should investigate Joe Biden. Communist China. The country that has perfected internet censorship. The country that has jailed more journalists this year than any other nation. The country where those who speak out against corrupt leadership end up spending happy time in “re-education” camps.
And then, this past summer, Trump put the squeeze on Ukraine to force the Ukrainians to give him help in the coming election.
Trump
took help from Russia, a hostile power, in 2016. He said he’d take help again
from “Norway” in 2020. What he really meant was: I will put the Ukrainians in a
box. If they want military aid, they’re going to have to cough up. I don’t care
if Ukrainian security is put at risk. I want them to promise to find dirt on
Joe and Hunter Biden. And I don’t care if – in damaging an ally – I put U.S.
security at risk.
That’s the story in a nutshell. Put all the posturing and pontificating by politicians aside. Trump wanted foreign help again.
Norway or North Korea, it wouldn’t matter.
Trump wouldn’t care.
He only cares about winning. In the end, there’s only one American he wants to keep safe: himself.
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| Nixon might relate. |
12/16/19: The votes are in and Donald J. Trump, without help from any
foreign country, has won for a fifth year in succession. Politifact, a
non-profit fact-checking site, recognizes him for telling the “Lie of the
Year.”
This year, his winning whopper, oft-repeated, was saying that the whistleblower got his July 25 phone call “almost completely wrong.”
This was not Trump’s first win. In 2018 he shared the award with other liars on the right, after claiming that Parkland High School students who were calling for stricter gun control were “crisis actors.” The year before that he swept to victory by insisting that Russian meddling in the 2016 election was a “made up story,” a “witch hunt” and “a hoax.” That followed his epic win in 2016, when he repeatedly labeled any news story he didn’t like “fake news.” That win was part of what would become an impressive streak, since he also won in 2015, for his body of work (Politifact rated 76% of all of Candidate Trump’s claims partly false, false, or “pants-on-fire” false).
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12/17/19: Two important documents are released today. One is a warning to all Americans. The other is – well, frankly, another inadvertent warning to us all – that the President of the United States is kind of a nut. The first is a scathing editorial written by William Webster, 96, the only man ever to serve as both director of the F.B.I. and later director of the C.I.A. Webster outlines the threat posed to the rule of law by Trump and his Trumplican enablers. The second warning comes in the form of a letter Trump pens himself.
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“The rule of law, something so precious it is greater than any man or administration.”
Former F.B.I.
Director William Webster
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In an opinion piece titled, “I Headed the F.B.I. and C.I.A. There’s a Dire Threat to the Country I Love,” Webster calls on all of us to awake. He was originally chosen by President Jimmy Carter to head the F.B.I. – because he was a Republican and the F.B.I. had fallen into disrepute during the Watergate years. Later, Webster served under President Ronald Reagan, a man he says he “revered.”
Now he says he considers it his duty,
to
speak out about a dire threat to the rule of law in the country I love.
Order protects liberty, and liberty protects order. Today, the integrity of the
institutions that protect our civil order are, tragically, under assault from
too many people whose job it should be to protect them.
Webster finds President Trump’s attacks on the current F.B.I Director deeply troubling. A ten-year tenure granted to F.B.I. directors is meant to insulate them from political pressure. But the “president’s thinly veiled suggestion that the director, Christopher Wray, like his banished predecessor, James Comey, could be on the chopping block, disturbs me greatly.” “The independence of both the F.B.I. and its director are critical,” he continues, “and should be fiercely protected by each branch of government.”
During his years at the F.B.I. helm,
I reported to four honorable attorneys general. Each clearly understood the importance of the rule of law in our democracy and the critical role the F.B.I. plays in the enforcement of our laws. They fought to protect both, knowing how important it was that our F.B.I. remain independent of political influence of any kind.
Attorney General William Barr’s “charges of bias within the F.B.I., made without providing any evidence and in direct dispute of the findings of the nonpartisan inspector general,” also trouble him. Such attacks “risk inflicting enduring damage on this critically important institution.”
Barr has said that the F.B.I. investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election was based on a “totally bogus narrative.”
Webster vehemently disagrees.
In
fact, the report conclusively found that the evidence to initiate the Russia
investigation was unassailable. There were more than 100 contacts between
members of the Trump campaign and Russian agents during the 2016 campaign,
and Russian efforts to undermine our democracy continue to this day.
He also expresses “profound” disappointment with Rudy Giuliani, a man he once considered a friend. “I hope he, like all of us, will redirect to our North Star, the rule of law, something so precious it is greater than any man or administration.”
Webster discusses challenges he has seen the nation overcome during a long and eventful life. This current challenge is as dangerous as any heretofore. “This is not about politics,” he warns. “This is about the rule of law. Republicans and Democrats alike should defend it above all else.”
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There was a quid pro quo.
WITH THE HOUSE of Representatives poised to vote on articles of impeachment the next day, President Trump fires off a six-page letter meant to offer a defense from what he considers a scurrilous attack. That letter bolsters the case that Trump has lost whatever few marbles he had left.
First, you have to wonder what possessed the President of the United States to sit down and start haranguing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the recipient of the original copy of his bizarre missive.
So, what were the main points
Trump hoped to make? Mainly, he wanted to scream about all the horrible people
out to get him. There was Chairman Adam
Schiff, who “cheated and lied.” There was “a ranting and raving Congresswoman,
Rashida Tlaib,” who called him a “mother****r.” And Pelosi! She was the worst.
“You do not know, nor do you care, the great damage and hurt you have inflicted
upon wonderful and loving members of my family,” Trump cries. Hillary! She was
terrible too. So was the F.B.I., which spied on his campaign (an inspector
general’s report just said that that charge was unfounded). And James Comey.
What a lowlife. Firing him was “one of the country’s greatest decisions.” Trump
made that decision. One of the greatest decisions! Of course. Many Democratic
lawmakers were “deranged and radical representatives of the far left.” In other
words, forget Ukraine. Forget military aid to an ally. And forget U.S. national
security – which would be harmed by a delay in the aid. Anyone who voted to
impeach him the next day, the president warned, was really showing they “revile
the voters” and “detest America’s Constitutional order.”
Mostly, the letter was nothing more than presidential whining. This was an “invalid impeachment.” Pelosi and the Democrats were “violating” their oaths of office. His opponents were “spiteful.” And, boy, did it piss him off when Speaker Pelosi kept telling reporters that she prayed for him. “You are offending Americans of faith by making that claim. It is a terrible thing you are doing,” he wailed, “but you will have to live with it, not I!”
(Actually, he was going to have to live with it; he was going to go down in history as one of only three presidents ever impeached.)
The man accused of abusing his power and threatening the rule of law, did his best to turn the tables on Pelosi and the Democrats – even though he was the one who asked a foreign power to interfere in a U.S. election (again). He labeled the impeachment inquiry “an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power.” In other words, he still didn’t know what the U.S. Constitution said. The House of Representatives is granted “sole power” to impeach.
Second, he said that the articles of impeachment were no good because they “include no crimes.” Again, he failed to understand what the Founding Fathers had said.
Besides, Ambassador Sondland said there was no “quid pro quo.” He said it!!! That meant, Trump had to be innocent.
He had to be!
(Of course, Sondland later
testified in what some people would call “plain English.” He said there was a
quid pro quo.)
If the Democratic standard for impeachment had been applied in the past, Trump continued to howl, “every American president would have been impeached many times over.” Obama would have been impeached probably ten times. That would be nine more times than Trump. George Washington would have been impeached at least twice. Maybe more. Bill Clinton’s penis would have been impeached, too. Only William Henry Harrison would have avoided impeachment, dying after 31 days in office, before the House of Representatives could put together an impeachment case.
Besides, Trump wanted to be clear, the Democrats couldn’t impeach him because he won in a landslide in 2016. Pelosi and her crew should back off and respect the 62 million voters who put him in office.
Forget the 65 million who voted for Hillary.
They weren’t really good Americans.
Besides the whistleblower, “started
this entire hoax with a false report of the phone call that bears no
relationship to the actual phone call that was made,” the president claimed. Once he “presented the transcribed call”
(actually a call memorandum) “and shocked the fraudsters” then “the so-called
whistleblower, and the second whistleblower, disappeared because they got
caught, their report was a fraud, and they were no longer going to be made
available to us.”
Anyone not too lazy to check could peruse the original whistleblower complaint and study witness testimony and see that almost every claim the whistleblower made was validated by more than one witness. And those witnesses all testified under oath. You could even find the whistleblower complaint at Fox News.
Well, you know who the real victim was in this whole Ukraine affair? Donald J. Trump! “More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials,” he cried, than Democrats gave him.
Then – back to bitching about Nancy Pelosi. She and her party were putting on a “false display of solemnity.” “No intelligent person believes what you are saying,” he writes in his letter to the Speaker. This impeachment is a partisan “coup.” It’s a “plot.” Pelosi has transformed “the House of Representatives from a revered legislative body into a Star Chamber of partisan persecution.”
Finally, Trump closes:
It is time for you and the highly partisan Democrats in Congress
to immediately cease this impeachment fantasy and get back to work for the
American People. While I have no expectation that you will do so, I write
this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a
permanent and indelible record.
One hundred years from now, when people look back at this affair,
I want them to understand it, and learn from it, so that it can never happen to
another President again.
Then he adds that giant signature of his:
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| Roger Sherman and the Founding Fathers would agree: You cannot put your own interests above U.S. national security. |
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| Trump is my boy! |
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| We the People: All of us, liberal, conservative and everyone in the middle and on the fringes, we are made safer by the rule of law. |
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| Trump loves Putin and Putin loves Trump. And they both hate critics. |
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| One guy Republicans don't want testifying: Michael Duffey. |
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| Yeah: Republicans don't want to hear from Bolton, either. |
President Trump was impeached in a 100% partisan, secretive process, without one Republican vote, and based on NO laws broken, no crimes, no codes or statutes violated -- nothing.
ReplyDeleteHere's what Pelosi said about partisan impeachment, and then she went and DID it anyway: "Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he’s just not worth it." -- Nancy Pelosi, March 2019
Bill Clinton was impeached on two counts: Article 1 - Lying to Congress (Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001); Article 2 - obstruction of Justice (Title 18, United States Code, Section 1503)
Trump impeachment: Article 1 - abuse of power (no applicable U.S. code); Article 2 - obstruction of Congress (no applicable U.S. code)
See the difference? Abuse of power and obstruction of Congress are not crimes. No applicable statute or code. The Democrats made them up.
Does the U.S. Constitution say there must be some code for impeachment? It does not. Also, there were Republican votes for impeachment, though few. I would direct you, also, to the comments of witnesses (who worked for Trump) in the Ukraine impeachment. Lt. Col. Vindman and others said quite clearly that Trump put U.S. security at risk in his attempt to force the President of Ukraine to dig up dirt on Hunter and Joe Biden. His own National Security Advisor, John Bolton says the same. And his former Sec. of Defense, James Mattis, has called Trump a threat to the Constitution, itself. Feel free to read my entire post and see if you learn anything new.
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