Posted on 12/27/2019 12:25:06 PM PST by Red Badger
Presidential historian Doug Wead joined Fox News‘ Molly Line on Thursday morning to discuss the upcoming impeachment trial. (Video below)
Line first asked Wead for his take on reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is “disturbed” over Mitch McConnell’s approach to the trial, which frankly, I see as a non-story. Line asked specifically if Wead thought Murkowski’s position could throw a monkey wrench into McConnell’s plan for a quick trial.
The very amiable Wead replied, “I think this is Sen. Murkowski signaling who she is. She’s an establishment Republican…but I don’t think it’s going anywhere and it’s certainly not outrageous for Senator McConnell to press this as a Republican because the impeachment was 100% – 100% – Democratic. They didn’t even take a breath. Two years of Russian collusion, never apologized, said, sorry we were wrong about that. Two months of bribery. Never even took a breath or said we were wrong about that too. They go right into this impeachment on the obstruction of Congress which should be pretty easy to prove and what are the Republicans going to do? If they didn’t unite behind this President, there’d be a lot of angry Republicans. It’s clearly partisan.
Line tried to bring the conversation back to Murkowski, which Wead didn’t seem to think was much of a story either.
Then he said something extremely interesting.
So far as Russian collusion, I have to tell you in my book there’s a great story there. The kids, the Trump kids are traveling all over the world, heads of state are pulling them aside in 2017 and they’re saying, “Please tell your father how sorry we are about this Russian collusion nonsense.” So there you go. If you’re the president of China or president of France you can’t wait two years for the Mueller report. You have your own secret service, there’s 120 intelligence services in the world. Everyone of them checked this out. They knew within 24 hours that this was a bogus story. The future of their country depended on knowing that. So this has kind of lingered on a little too long.
The rest of the world knew within 24 hours the story that President Trump had colluded with Russians to win the 2016 election was bogus. Yet the FBI and then the Mueller investigation bogged down America for three years. Yes, Democrats kept the country mired in what they knew was a lie for years because of their hatred of Donald Trump.
Yet, even now, none of them will acknowledge it. Instead, they launched right into another fraudulent narrative which the rest of the world knows is bogus. I suppose Democrats have been pretending it’s real for so long, they may actually feel it’s true. Democrats have held the country hostage for so long with their fantasyland. It’s time to hit them with some reality.
The same goes for Murkowski. By now, Republicans are so used to her bucking the party on every important vote (Kavanaugh nomination, repeal of Obamacare), she’s lost her ability to shock and with it, her relevance.
The difference between now and three years ago is that most Americans know it’s untrue and now fall into one of three categories. The first group knows it was all a lie, but if it can be used to remove Trump from office, they’re all for it. The second group knows it was all a lie, and they’re angry. The third group knows it was all a lie, but they are completely bored with it.
Truth has a way of prevailing in the end. And every day, we’re getting closer.
Asking for a friend. Can someone point out the correct statute concerning collusion? TIA!
Writer or editor missed a word...
Oops! Ignore my previous post!!! No missed word...
I think the RATS and their Deep State Repuke buddies know that if Trump is re-elected he will then go for full declassification of all files in early January 2021 when he doesn’t need to worry about running again.This upcoming year could be one of the most stormy ones in our history!
Collusion, per se, is not a crime in any jurisdiction of the US.
What WOULD be a crime is a conspiracy to commit a crime. And we know that didn’t happen.
It wasn’t Hillary particularly - it was the whole scam - the theft of taxpayer money by politicians:
From Twitter:
C3
@C_3C_3
Want to find where the billions in taxpayer $ sent to other countries as “aid” then laundered back to corrupt politicians in DC went?
Check out their “foundations”.
Start with the Clinton and then go the McCain foundation etc etc etc.
They’ve been stealing from us for decades.
Post 7
Spot-on
DC CESSPOOL FILLED WITH THIEVES
Precisely!
The Russia Collusion was a smoke screen. The Democrats AND the Republicans have been raiding Foreign Aide! How else can you explain the Politicians becoming Millionaires on their salary?
If you go back to the debate on the Constitution and the Federalist Papers you see that the Framers intended these NOT be grounds for impeachment, which is why they used the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors." In their blind rage and desire to get rid of Trump the Democrats are trampling on the Constitution.
It needs to be cleaned out. It’s like lancinga boil, you know it’s going to hurt and you know it’s going to be messy but it absolutely has to be done.
“The very amiable Wead replied, “I think this is Sen. Murkowski signaling who she is. She’s an establishment Republican…”
1. Lisa is ‘signaling’ a possible defection from the solid Republican wall, or (more likely)
2. Lisa hopes to ‘get something’ from McConnell in the next Senate appropriations bill.
F-troop and Mueller were not investigating the Russia claim. The investigation was/is nothing more than a method of impeding Trump and his agenda.
Someday, someone will cry havoc....
The thing you really need to think about is all those intelligence agencies knew, yet somehow it was either not leaked to the press or the press decided not to publish the truth. Now isn’t that something to think about!
If it wasn’t leaked, then most of the intelligence agencies were against Trump. If it wasn’t published, then well the media was against Trump.
The press knew all along...................
the money.. the lives ruined.. I’d call them in and have a short trial.. 5 min... and call the next round in.. and show them the same grace they showed Trump and others they went after. this makes the deep swamp even more sinister and heartless... they have to stand trial or they will keep doing their evil deeds.
This has nothing to do with the topic, but the way you spelled lancinga made me chuckle. Made me think of using it as a name. “HI! I’m Lancinga, Lancinga Boil, how are you?”
Not true, and that’s the real scandal. Some of the “people who run the world” actually truly believed this crap.
I think those nations that cooperated were really just trying to suck up to Hilliary, whom they just knew would win.
The Trump won and they scrambled like hell to undo the damage they had inflicted on themselves by shooting themselves in the foot!................
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