The farcical hearings yesterday were intentionally conducted on the very day the IG report was released so as to be a shiny object distracting the country from findings of the DOJ Inspector General. To add more farce to the pile today dems are introducing two articles of impeachment, presumably the ones that had the best resonance in focus groups- abuse of power and obstruction of justice.
As Andy McCarthy notes, it is abuse of power and obstruction of justice to investigate democrat corruption:
The public wonders: What’s the rush? After all, Democrats apparently didn’t think the “crisis” was so dire that their Thanksgiving holiday should be postponed. In 11 months, the American people will be able to boot President Trump from office if they believe he is unfit. So why should the political class be permitted to pre-empt voters?
Finally, Democrats have come up with an answer: Trump must be removed, because he is bent on colluding with foreign powers to interfere in our elections; he will do it “again” if he isn’t stripped of power.
“Again,” of course, hearkens back to the Democrats’ Russia “collusion” narrative. They can’t let go of that narrative, notwithstanding the fact that the Mueller probe debunked it. In their revisionist history, Trump’s quip that he hoped Russia would find the 30,000 emails Hillary Clinton destroyed somehow proves the scheme that a score of aggressive prosecutors couldn’t find.
Plainly, Trump was trying to draw attention to his opponent’s misconduct. Indeed, the theory of the investigators and Democrats, for two years running, was that Trump was a hireling of the Kremlin, not that he was giving Putin orders.
The point is this: Democrats regard as impeachable “interference” any effort to investigate or draw attention to their known or suspected misconduct.
Indeed and thus today dems enacted their mission of vengeance on Trump for winning the 2016 election.
Nadler led off the nonsense:
“Our President holds the ultimate public trust,” Nadler said. “When he betrays that trust, and puts himself before country, he endangers the Constitution, he endangers our democracy, and he endangers our national security.”
Adam Schiff adds to the lies:
“The argument ‘Why don’t you just wait?’ amounts to this: ‘Why don’t you just let him cheat in one more election? Why not let him cheat just one more time? Why not let him have foreign help just one more time?’”
One more time? That presumes Trump cheated in the 2016- which is absolutely a lie.
Schiff said there was “overwhelming evidence” against Trump. Then again, it was Schiff who said there was overwhelming evidence for Russian collusion.
Back on December 4, Nadler said this
“President Trump welcomed foreign interference in the 2016 election. He demanded it for the 2020 election. In both cases, he got caught. And in both cases, he did everything in his power to prevent the American people from learning the truth about his conduct.”
Demand? There were no demands.
He did everything he could to prevent the American people from knowing what he did- by allowing Vindman and a dozen other people to listen in on the call? Right. Totally logical.
Nadler has said that Trump will continue to seek foreign interference in US elections.
The question is – how?
How does asking Ukraine to investigate corruption amount to foreign interference in US elections? As I’ve said before, Biden is not yet the nominee and thus is not yet the opponent. But more than that, this impeachment effort is an admission by Nadler, Schiff and Pelosi that the Biden’s are guilty of corruption.
If the Biden’s are not guilty, what was to be feared in a Ukrainian investigation?
If democrats would argue that the Ukrainian government might wrongly point a finger at the Biden’s because of endemic corruption then Trump is vindicated. If the Biden’s are innocent they and the dems have nothing to fear.
The Biden’s are clearly guilty of corruption.
Lindsey Graham has said that he would dispose of this quickly in the Senate. That’s the wrong thing to do. It should be a long drawn out process that utterly and completely destroys the democrat party.
It is the dems who are guilty of abuse of power. Impeachment as a punishment for winning an election sets a very ugly standard for this country.
As if they could give a damn.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
When the list of Dems and their collaborators come out, it’s not going to be clown show of media hacks and puffed up liberals labeling other people criminals.
It’s going to be real charges, real courts, and real handcuffs.
We’re a nation of laws, not a nation of opinion and conjecture.
First things first. Lindsey Graham talks a LOT and DOES nothing useful.
Democrats have indicted multiple people, practiced entrapment, gotten plea bargains (convictions), ruined lives, raided homes like Nazis in the night for no good reason, and completed two investigations into Trump.
They are moving toward impeaching him.
Republicans have done…well you tell me.
@Meremortal:
Allowed them to self destruct, sat on stupid bills of social engineering nonsense.
What were they to do? Behave like the dems? They didnt have the media to back them on those moves.
What Barr and Durham are attempting is extremely dangerous and they will be demonized like Joe Mc Carthy was.
The Perps portrayed as patriotic souls protecting us from evil Russia.
Be patient a while longer, instant food is no comparison to home cooked.
“Jellyfish” Graham has let down his side of the aisle and conservatives too many times to be trusted to do the right thing here.
Perhaps that is more “parody”. Schiff seems capable of nothing BUT “parody”*
I guess they didn’t fall for that trick of releasing millions of documents upon demand or releasing the actual transcript of the phone call in question. DAMN their cleverness!!
Well, over and over the Democrats characterize Trump’s requests for Zelensky to investigate corruption with a demand for him to investigate Biden. They absolutely equate Biden with corruption and his bragging about extorting Ukraine to protect his son leaves no doubt.
Whether it ever happens again or not, the Democrats have established the precedent that a duly elected President can be impeached with nothing but a majority in the House and the will to ignore duty to voters and the Constitution. To project this further, a corresponding sufficient majority in the Senate could result in the removal of a President for nothing but political expediency. Our system of government relies on the good intentions of our representatives. A free society cannot have all the safeguards necessary to prevent all abuses of power. What we’ve seen is what happens when our own representatives decide their duty to their party is greater than their duty to respect the Constitution.
* “parody” equals bold-face, irresponsible, baseless, despicable lying.
‘Why don’t you just let him cheat in one more election? Why not let him cheat just one more time? Why not let him have foreign help just one more time?’
”YO SHIFTAYYYYYY
Ok how did Trump cheat in the previous election, seems Horowitz sorta proved that was not the case.
Convicted sex offender George Nader, who was a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, has been indicted by United States prosecutors for his alleged role in a scheme to conceal large sums of illegal campaign contributions to help Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.
Seems your name was mentioned too Rep. Schiff.
Hows that other big Democrat bundler in Cali doing Ed Buck the one that dead black male prostitutes keep turning up in his house?
Biden is just an example of what democrts do one they gain office, MOFKR? Make our filthy kids rich.
there is no mention in the Constitution, with respect to impeachment, with the relevance of obstruction of alleged justice and abuse of power. these two farcical, comic stip headlines do not exist in the US Constitution. idiot joe and his crack cocaine kid is guilty of money laundering, interfering in the elections of a foreign government and treasonable acts as noted in the World Court. douche bags both in personality and mentality
A leopard never changes his spots.
July 21, 2020 – How Donald Trump Moved Millions From His Campaign Donors To His Private Business
Michael Cohen was recently put back in prison to delay the appearance of a book. About a year ago, the DoJ closed the investigation into Trump’s campaign finances without explanation, leaving nothing but locked down evidence and unanswered questions. That was a few months before he was ordered by a judge to repay around $2 million in misused Trump Foundation charitable donations. Remember Trump University? Probably not. Yet “Democrats Admit Biden is guilty of corruption”, which is a load of manure, will be remembered well enough.
Trump has scammed an entire nation. He has played his supporters for fools, used the Office of the President as a means of personal enrichment, methodically used its powers to obstruct or close down investigations of himself and his associates, overridden the courts, and used the DoJ as a personal and political weapon. One can only marvel, and wonder how this will be written up in the history books.
July 23, 2020 – Judge Orders Cohen Released, Citing ‘Retaliation’ Over Tell-All Book — A judge agreed that federal officials had returned Michael D. Cohen to prison because he wanted to publish a book this fall about President Trump
(That, in fact, is precisely what happened. Cohen’s release to home confinement was made conditional upon his silence, which was a blatant violation of his First Amendment rights. Release from prison on the condition of silence is a common means of intimidation and suppressing dissenting opinion in totalitarian states.
This condition certainly wasn’t the idea of prison officials. The instruction had to have come from higher up. The irony here is that Michael Cohen was in prison in the first place on charges related to buying silence on behalf of and at the orders of his former employer. Cohen himself received no personal benefit from the actions he was taking. He then became the fall guy, and was abandoned to his fate.)
@Greg: So, all one of the “arch criminals” associated with Trump has to do to get out of jail is hint they will write an anti-Trump book? Do you see how transparently stupid this makes you guys look?
The judge had no difficulty quickly figuring out what was happening.
@Greg: Yeah, Coen could be politically useful to the left, so release him from jail.
Cohen could tell what he knows about Trump’s dirty laundry, which would be plenty. Why shouldn’t he? Trump rewarded years of loyalty by make Cohen the fall guy.
@Greg: Oh… you mean when he’s not under oath, so he can make more shit up, right? He’s already been interrogated and has testified. He even LIED (and got perjury slapped on his sentence as well) about Trump to satisfy his inquisitors, but his lies were exposed.
Your desperate grasping at straws is pretty pathetic.