We have reached maximum clown world.
Posted on 12/26/2019 3:58:26 AM PST by Kaslin
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi abruptly announced in September that the House was moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry related to President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, it left many long time Washington insiders scratching their heads. After all, since she picked up the gavel a year ago, Pelosi had been persistently pushing back against the hard left squad who were squawking for impeachment even before Inauguration Day, insisting that any legitimate impeachment effort would have to be bipartisan in nature.
A savvy politician, Pelosi is well aware of how the Clinton impeachment boomeranged on Republicans when they were in the majority — and that GOP impeachment effort was undertaken only after a lengthy and exhaustive investigation that documented clear violations of the law by the Chief Executive. After the failure of the long-running Mueller investigation to produce anything of value, the thin gruel of President Trump’s phone conversation with the president of Ukraine has never seemed any less than absurd as a basis for removing a United States President from office in accordance with the constitutional standard of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
The argument that Pelosi could simply no longer resist the agitation of her party’s leftist base makes little sense. If the two-year investigation of a Justice Department-appointed special prosecutor provided no actionable pretext for commencing impeachment proceedings, then the idea that an anonymous whistleblower complaint about the content of a phone conversation with a foreign leader impelled Pelosi to call for Trump’s impeachment (even before any formal congressional “investigation” began) is utterly ludicrous. If she could resist the leftist loonies determined to run her party over the cliff with impeachment over “Russian collusion,” she could certainly reject their calls for impeachment over the even more transparently ridiculous charge of an “improper” call, particularly when it distracts valuable attention from her party’s looming presidential primaries.
No, the real explanation for Pelosi’s sudden flip is that those in the know — in the intelligence community, on congressional committees, and even in the Democratic mouthpiece media with their Deep State sources — warned her in early September of the potential political catastrophe that would ensue as a result of the devastating revelations in both the Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s abuse of the FISA process and U.S. Attorney John Durham’s more comprehensive investigation into the origins and perpetuation of the bogus “Russian collusion” narrative. That transparently preposterous conspiracy theory, cooked up by the Clinton campaign as an explanation for their disastrous loss, was then propagated with help from the exiting Obama administration, the intelligence community, anti-Trump operatives in the federal bureaucracy, and of course Democratic members of Congress and their lapdog allies in the mainstream media. Both of these reports will confirm every one of Donald Trump’s allegations of a baseless witch hunt orchestrated by the Deep State to overturn the results of the 2016 election. In order to preemptively mitigate the political fallout, Democrats had to go on the offensive and accelerate impeachment proceedings, no matter how flimsy the pretext.
The truly remarkable story of the past month is how well this desperate gambit to prevent the public from grasping the full reality of the ongoing Deep State coup against our duly elected president worked. The content of Inspector General Horowitz’s report completely eviscerated the carefully-crafted narrative of former FBI Director James Comey and his minions in the corrupt media and on Capitol Hill. Far from exonerating the FBI leadership of wrongdoing, it revealed rampant abuse of the FISA process, misrepresentation of facts and forgery of documents to the FISA Court, and the use of unsupported opposition research documents by the FBI as the basis to spy on and entrap a presidential campaign.
Every single one of President Trump’s supposedly “unhinged” assertions about Comey’s FBI — and more — were proven true by the IG report. And yet, almost all the mainstream media coverage parroted the Democratic talking points that the report had somehow “exonerated” the FBI of accusations of political bias. But for anyone paying attention, it was obvious that the IG’s report came to no such conclusion — it simply asserted that in lieu of any smoking gun documents or testimonial evidence, it was not possible to determine whether the egregious misrepresentations of fact and alterations of documents presented to the FISA court were the result of gross incompetence or political bias.
The problem is, with the circus of impeachment as background noise, too few people were paying attention, making it difficult for many Americans to penetrate the propaganda of “exoneration” being peddled by the compliant corporate media. Even so, commentators expressed bewilderment that despite weeks of wall-to-wall coverage of “historic” impeachment proceedings by the cable news subsidiaries of the Democratic Party, public opinion had actually shifted substantially against impeachment rather than coalesced behind it. The IG report, it seems, actually did have an impact on those who are not inclined to mindlessly accept any and all anti-Trump narratives at face value.
Let’s hope that voters continue to see through the charade, and that justice finally comes to those who conspired against our President and our democracy.
Those who are fighting like drowned rats against trump and this investigation are in up to their eyeballs. They have setup a family oriented American tax payer money laundering scam as well as a soft coup of an elected president. WE NEED JUSTICE in all of this, no soft smack on the hand and I promise not to do it again, we need prosecutions and jail time for all involved. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DEMAND IT!
One would think that people who are fanatically obsessed with Trump’s approval of “only 45%” would be a little more cautious reflecting upon the fact that the “approval rating” of Congress and “The Media” are in single digits.
The Dems are looking for leverage to have witnesses re-invent their impeachment charges.
I think this is what they're waiting for....and the threat will be to go back to go and start a NEW, IMPROVED set of charges.
I heard that Executive Privilege is NOT available during the trial phase.
Pelosi gets up there to speak and she looks like a dog shittin’ bones. Serves her right.
With this New Democrat Party, all that is required to impeach is to say something is true. That alone makes it fact.
These people show no regard for truth.
VOTE THEM ALL OUT!
I stood up and cheered when he dispensed with the ‘Pelosi is in a tough spot’ conventional wisdom. She made her bed.
This was and continues to be a cover-up. A very desperate one hence all hands to the pumps except, of course, the Clintons who somehow convince others to do their dirty work and then to take the fall.
But are voters really seeing through it? Support for Trump because of peace and prosperity is one thing but as we keep saying his numbers should be higher with or without negative media coverage and they should be higher against a strictly partisan impeachment.
Unfortunately, the author stops short of the coldest, hardest reality of all: Barack Obama was involved down to the smallest detail and either personally acted in the initiation and execution of the plan or, more likely, allowed himself to be used. He play-acted as a responsible president responding to reported threats. This allowed him to participate but also to claim ignorance of the plot.
Convincing voters - or anyone else - that the 44th president is as craven, cowardly, cynical and criminal as many of us here have long known is going to be a tough ask. Many people just don’t want to admit the president is dirty and common - it generates a ton of cognitive dissonance.
There’s a reason the Obamas continue their PR push despite being out of office and it isn’t just down to Michelle’s possible presidential run. He is in serious legal jeopardy IF law enforcement is unafraid to actually enforce the law and to connect the easiest set of dots in the book.
Ronnie, we do indeed demand justice. No wrist slaps and no probation. This kind of serious crime requires serious punishment — including the ultimate punishment.
However, we need someone other than President Trump to lead the charge. No matter how justified he would be in seeking revenge, after all the crap shoveled onto him, his involvement would appear vindictive and petty.
We need a different figure wielding the axe. Somebody loud and even a bit profane, but unquestionably honest and patriotic, along the lines of a military drill instructor. To add gravitas, maybe a former general or admiral, or possibly a business figure.
The President needs to unleash his hounds.
Pelosi and her kid are involved in Ukrainian corruption. This is personal for her and explains the desperation.
Every time the Deep State gouges Trump, contributions to his campaign break records. And by this time, he has no doubt learned all the dirty secrets the dems use to keep their people in line.
Donald Trump succeeding beyond anyone's wildest imagination is Pelosi's and the rest of the Democrats' worst nightmare.
They MUST stop him! But how? If "impeachment" fails, what then??? NOTHING is beneath them, but they are at their wit's end. They are DESPERATE!
The specter of President Trump continuing to bring unimaginable prosperity to America, ending America's long racial nightmare, fulfilling the American Dream--all this horrifies the evil Democrats!
For Donald Trump to MAKE AMERICA GREAT!, to fulfill his vow to CLEAN UP WASHINGTON!, to rally Americans to TRUST IN GOD!--all this is a nightmare to those who HATE America, who HATE President Trump, who HATE everything that is good and wholesome and great, who are afflicted with the decadence of Western Civilization, who have succumbed to the internal moral rot and decay that are destroying the USA and have destroyed all great civilizations in the past.
President Trump is on the side of the Angels. He is a follower and worshiper of Jesus Christ. He declares himself so.
The swamp fears Inspector General Horowitz about as much as they do Trump the good old boy club in melt mode.
speaker lashar hara
Elite Democrats of the dark state not only likely broke laws to try to keep Trump from becoming POTUS, but probably continued to break laws to get him out Oval Office after he won election imo.
Given the great work that patriot USAG William Barr is doing to support PDJT in draining the swamp, these Democrats are probably ultimately looking at prison time unless they can cheat the ballot boxes and replace PDJT with another lawless Democratic POTUS who will effectively grant them amnesty.
In the context of trying to avoid prison, getting PDJT out of the Oval Office is collateral damage imo.
Remember in November!
MAGA, now KAGA! (Keep America Great Always!)
Thiss all started in 2011 while Trump was siding
with Arpaio digging into Obama’s birth certificate.
Nancy also falsified Obama’s eligibility forms thus
enabling him to run for president.
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