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Posted on 01/18/2020 9:12:24 AM PST by jazusamo
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., seemed giddy Wednesday as she announced the impeachment managers who would go to the Senate and attempt to prosecute a case against President Trump.
“He’s been impeached forever,” Pelosi said. “They can never erase that.”
However, Pelosi has it exactly backward. The Senate is going to refuse to convict President Trump. He will be exonerated, and she and the Democrats will be condemned by history.
The wide repudiation of the House Democratic betrayal of the Constitution is already beginning. As a historian myself, I think it’s important to document these reactions.
Consider historian Victor Davis Hanson’s analysis for the National Review, which was subtitled: “The new normal: Impeachment as a routine partisan tool, endless investigations, lying under oath with impunity, surveillance of political enemies, zero accountability.”
This is hardly an endorsement of Pelosi’s trivialization of the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln scholar and highly respected historian Allen Guelzo asserted in The Wall Street Journal:
[Charles] Pinckney and [Rufus] King might have been right in 1787. Americans prefer to choose their presidents with elections, and whenever impeachment is used in an attempt to nullify those choices, the results aren’t happy for anyone. That was true in 1868, and as both Andrew Johnson and his accusers might warn us, it remains true after a century and a half.”
Clearly, Pelosi did not know enough history to understand the warnings of Pinckney and King – or the sad end of the impeachment process against President Johnson.
When he was interviewed by Arun Rath, Harvard law professor and ACLU liberal Alan Dershowitz commented:
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I would like to think so - unfortunately, it depends on who gets to write the history books.
Whatever.
The stock market doesn’t surge almost Every Single Day if the country or world is Really Worried that a POTUS might get kicked out of office.
No One, save msm, the rabid base and dem congress animals cares about this whole thing.
I’m such a nervous wreck that I’ve been called a concern troll many times (after a million years on the board) and even I’M not at all worried about Trump being ousted
If I’m not worrying about something, there can’t be any reason to worry :)
Why wait? I condemn these worthless, vile reprobates right now, in the strongest possible terms. May they rot in HELL!
FR fantasy league
Trump wins bigley, Rs take the House...Nasty resigns and Rats across the jump off bridges.
Exactly right. The Democrats think they will be able to scam history into believing impeachment was justified.
(Most of the time)
“Why wait? I condemn these worthless, vile reprobates right now, in the strongest possible terms. May they rot in HELL”!
The same here. They are nothing but Evil.
Yes he does, and political history is his strong suit.
Newt- it has already brought her condemnation-
EVERYONE who is honest knows she is doing this as a form of vindictiveness because he party lost AND because republicans and democrats impeached bill clinton, and nothing about it is legitimate-
The democrats can never erase the fact that President Trump is responsible for the greatest economy that America has ever seen!
The democrats can never erase the return of American posture and stature amongst the G7 and the world by restoring their economies.... single handedly.
This will never be erased.
Something that the marxist-muslim alligned Democrats could not and would not do.
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Newt is full of antique hotair!! Maybe in the past presidential history written by unbiased historians it would’ve BUT not now!! The vitriol ALL liberal historians have for this president is through the roof and beyond! Think Nixon but 100 million times worse!! HELLywood and the liberal historians will gang up and brainwash the populace with lies and faults! President Trump WILL NEVER EVER get a fair shake now nor in the future history books along with the 100’s of movies that will come out,. Their demonic agenda: to destroy everything associated with the name Trump like they did with the Nixon family, but much worse....remember Pelosi rallying cry, “ impeach forever” well she was joking, ..this IS THERE AGENDA..DESTROY the Trump family...ALL OF THEM at all cost!! You see NO TRUMP can ever be a threat to them again...EVER! And there are 3 very potential presidential candidates in that family! Who knows about Barron but he too will have a shot at it! My one cent worth!
I want Pelosi disgraced to the point she has to permanently move to her tuna cannery in Samoa. In a just world she shouldn’t be able to show her face in public.
Pelosi and House Democrats don’t care about the future or their legacy. They care about here and now. They want power and want it now. Nothing else matters.
!! MORE HARSH WORDS !!
by a Republican.
Beware Democrats, if you do not heed Gingrich’s warning, the Republicans have ...
!!! EVEN HARSHER WORDS !!!
Oh, the huge manatee.
> “He’s been impeached forever,” Pelosi said. “They can never erase that.”
Actually he can be unimpeached.
A lawyer connected with the White House stated that if and when the GOP retakes the House, they can vote a resolution based on partisan and unconstitutional grounds to rescind the impeachment.
A rescission of the Pelosi impeachment vote would then be entered into the Congressional record and forever clear the President of this baseless partisan exercise.
History may record the Pelosi vote for impeachment with an asterisk followed by a phrase that the impeachment was rescinded by a vote in the House.
What must happen after, without fail, is a relentless prosecution of Pelosi and her mafia network of corruption including discovery and prosecution of those who control her. History must record the dealings of Schiff, Pelosi, Biden and all the rest in the schemes of voting congressional appropriations that were steered to surrogates that kicked back laundered funds and campaign contributions as a corrupt course of business.
For example, a caption of history would say,
“In 2020, the leadership of the United States House of Representatives was investigated for having participated in receiving kickbacks from funds appropriated and steered to parties in interest. The following year 2021, several leaders in the House were prosecuted and convicted for fraud, larceny, money laundering, RICO violations, breach of oath, and were sentenced to prison. After the conviction, the House of representatives voted to rescind the 2020 vote for impeachment declaring that the impeachment vote was an attempt to cover up the crimes of the convicted parties and was nevertheless decided in the United State Senate to be without merit.”
If the above does not happen, the criminals in congress will have won and future criminals in Congress will be emboldened to think there are no consequences for their corruption. In fact, some future criminals in Congress will likely think their corrupt dealings are not corrupt, rather a normalized course of doing legislative side business.
I am convinced Pelosi suffers from the onset of dementia, she believes everything she says as do all people suffering from that horrible disease.
It’s past time for her to retire and seek what help is available for her remaining years.
Pelosi is like a crooked cop, making charges just to put money in his pocket.
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