Trump’s Defenders Have No Defense

Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/22/2019 | Peggy Noonan

[HogsBreath]

Look, the case has been made. Almost everything in the impeachment hearings this week fleshed out and backed up the charge that President Trump muscled Ukraine for political gain. The pending question is what precisely the House and its Democratic majority will decide to include in the articles of impeachment, what statutes or standards they will assert the president violated.

[HogsBreath]

I think she is over-estimating the case and under-estimating Trump.

[freedomlover]

Look, NO.

[BenLurkin]

What’s to defend? He is doing his job.

[Michael.SF.]

what statutes or standards they will assert the president violated"

If such violations had occurred, I'm pretty sure the code numbers or citations would already be out there.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The WSJ believes in gangster government.

[Fresh Wind]

Aw Jeez, not this Schiff again.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime.”

[yarddog]

I would think the fact that this whole investigation was manufactured out of whole cloth would mean something.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Look, the case has been made. Almost everything in the impeachment hearings this week fleshed out and backed up the charge that President Trump muscled Ukraine for political gain.

TRANSLATION: "Any Democrat who runs for President is immune from investigation/prosecution, but any Republican who wins the Presidency has committed an impeachable offense by defeating a Democrat."

[ocrp1982]

More TDS delusion from a Bush supporting Never Trumper who is so insulated from the real world she’s clueless about how clueless she is.

The dems will likely file articles but, not a one of them will be based upon a single provable fact.

[JPJones]

“The pending question is what precisely the House and its Democratic majority will decide to include in the articles of impeachment, what statutes or standards they will assert the president violated.”

The fact that that is not clear to everyone by now, is the perfect Defense of Trump.

Thanks Peggy!

[Dr. Zzyzx]

Peggy, Peggy, Peggy

[chajin]

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!

I am tired of being lied to. I am tired of being condescended to. I am tired of being brushed aside and my sovereign vote being made to no effect.

Ms. Noonan, this would be a good time to SHUT UP and LET THE EVIDENCE SPEAK, for it speaks factual truth that your politically-based contortions cannot.

I regret that I ever stood on the side of these people.

[Shark24]

she must be a very sad unhappy woman. Sad that her talent now is used for evil, not good.

[Ken H]

Better tell that to Independents, where support for impeachment is plunging.

[Huskrrrr]

Peggy crossed over to the dark side.

[TTFlyer]

Thanks for the Globalist RINO hack opinion, Peggy. Now buzz off.

[jonrick46]

Senator Lindsey Graham explained to Hannity that it was the Pentagon that resisted the aid because of concerns that it would be pocketed by criminals associated with the Ukraine government. There needed to be assurances that the new government under Volodymyr Zelensky would put the aid where it was meant to go—to fight Russia. Thus, the phone call by Trump. Any other way would have meant deceptions by those in on the corruption (the intelligence community?).

[lurk]

Peggy, opinions, hearsay, presumptions and a butt hurt are going to fly in a real trial like a shot put.

[Yo-Yo]

From the article:

The week’s hearings were not a seamless success for Democrats. On Tuesday they seemed to be losing the thread. But by Wednesday and Thursday it was restored.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was not a persuasive witness and did not move the story forward, because in spite of the obvious patriotism reflected in his record he was annoying—smug and full of himself. He appeared in full dress uniform with three rows of ribbons. When Rep. Devin Nunes called him “Mr. Vindman,” he quickly corrected him: “Ranking Member, it’s Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, please.” Oh, snap. As he described his areas of authority at the National Security Council, he seemed to glisten with self-regard. You got the impression he saw himself as fully in charge of U.S. policy toward Ukraine. Asked if it was true that government offered to make him their defense minister he said “yes” with no apparent embarrassment. I don’t know about you but I don’t like it when a foreign government gets a sense of a U.S. military officer and concludes he might fit right in. (A Ukrainian official later said the job offer was a joke.)