Posted on 10/26/2019 5:00:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
Well, it’s begun. The Trump impeachment circus has engulfed the Hill. House Democrats are keeping a tight lid on the unofficial impeachment inquiry, selectively releasing documents that cater to their narrative and babysitting GOP members on the committees involved in this witch-hunt. They’re giving them one-page summaries of hearings and testimonies, shadowed by a Democratic staffer. It’s pure nonsense. It all stems from a whistleblower account from a reported CIA agent, who admits to being a registered Democrat, had worked in the Obama White House, and with a 2020 Democratic candidate.
Oh, and this person contacted the staff of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, who then knew about the contents of this report before it was officially filed. It’s all based on second-hand sources. This person never listened in on the call between Trump and the Ukrainian president in July, where a shakedown of sorts was allegedly carried out. Trump threatened to hold aid unless Ukraine looked into the dealings of the Biden family in their country. Hunter Biden was on the board of an energy company while Joe was serving as vice president despite having zero experience in this line of work. The Trump White House released the transcript, where this allegation was debunked.
If you thought facts wouldn’t deter Democrats from not pulling the trigger on their long-term project against this administration, you’d be correct. Yet, The Wall Street Journal editorial board took the Left to the woodshed for the whitewashing of their 2016 foreign interference antics, which has Hillary Clinton’s hands all over the evidence. First, they hired ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele to compile an opposition research file on Trump using Kremlin sources that were financed by the Clinton campaign and the Democrats. That Trump dossier was then used by the FBI, who appears to have never verified it given the errors in the file that could’ve been easily spotted with a simple Google search, to secure FISA spy warrants against Carter Page, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser. That sounds like Democrat-Russian collusion. Or what about the Clinton-Ukraine ties Katie wrote about, citing an investigative piece from Politico:
Shortly before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in January, POLITICO published a lengthy investigative piece about the Clinton campaign and Democrat National Committee's brazen collusion with the Ukrainian government to win the White House and to damage Trump's candidacy.
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Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
Politico’s investigation found evidence of Ukrainian government involvement in the race that appears to strain diplomatic protocol dictating that governments refrain from engaging in one another’s elections.
The “favor” that Trump asked of the Ukrainians related to the ongoing Department of Justice probe into the origins of the Russia collusion fiasco—which has now become a criminal investigation. That’s a U.S.-based investigation and something that is not out of the question. We need to know how this whole Trump-Russia collusion freak show came about (via WSJ):
Democrats want to impeach Donald Trump for inviting Ukraine to investigate 2020 election rival Joe Biden. But then why are they opposed to investigating whether Democrats used Russian disinformation to get the FBI to investigate Donald Trump in 2016?
That’s the double standard now on gaudy public display over multiple news reports that U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the origins of the Russian fiasco of 2016 has become a criminal probe. Attorney General William Barr this year appointed Mr. Durham, a highly regarded and veteran prosecutor, to examine this part of the Russia tale that special counsel Robert Mueller chose to ignore.
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Democrats know that the Hillary Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Mr. Trump, and Fusion hired former British spook Christopher Steele, who compiled a dossier of allegations about Mr. Trump from Russian sources that turned out to be false.
Worse, Fusion funneled the dossier to the FBI, which used it to persuade the secret FISA court to issue a warrant to eavesdrop on Trump official Carter Page. Democrats now want to discredit any attempt to hold people accountable if crimes were committed as part of this extraordinary dirty trick.
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What Americans deserve to know is what happened, including who in the Obama Administration or FBI worked with Fusion GPS, whether the White House or CIA were involved, and what James Comey’s FBI told the FISA court. People need to be held publicly accountable so reforms can be made and to serve as a deterrent so this doesn’t happen again.
Well said, though I think the publication gave too much credit to the narrative that Trump failed at a quid pro quo push. Reportedly, the Ukrainians didn’t even know at the time of the July call U.S. aid was under review, so no quid. Also, it’s not like we don’t conduct reviews for aid packages. Again, this Trump-Ukraine obsession is probably shoddier than the Kremlin collusion hysterics, but the Left has to find something to launch an impeachment offensive. They promised their base blood. This is it before the 2020 election kicks into high gear.
I understand that the author is under contract and has to present a column for publication on a schedule, but copying almost a whole piece from another source is just cheating.
If you aren’t ready to write, Matt Vespa, go back to school and learn to be an HVAC tech or something useful.
The dems cry “Wolf” and are surprised at the response. No one takes them serious.
Commissar Schiff is behaving in the sordid manner of the Soviet communists he so greatly admires. The failure to definitively punish those responsible for communist crimes and atrocities has inspired vermin like Schiff. Schiff, Kerry, Pelosi, Brennan, Obama and the rest ultimately think that they will never be held accountable for their crimes.
The American taxpayer should not pay for these investigations, the so-called lawmakers participating in this farce should pay out of their own pocket. Why? Because the entire House did not vote on it and what these fools are doing is tantamount to treason.
If not cheating, it is at least a waste of my time. Nothing new was presented here.
I agree with you, good money can be made in HVAC and in his case he will be making people comfortable rather than annoyed.
It’s one thing to not be a good writer, and something else to not even try to produce your own work.
I don’t have any problem with it.
If author #2 has written a stellar piece, then use it.
Why reinvent the wheel?
I believe the entire whistle blower act is part of the Democrat fraud. It legalizes their coup.
Student #1 has written an A+ term paper. Why should Student #2 reinvent the wheel?
Maybe because Student #2 isn’t trying to inform the American people?
/eyeroll
*eyeroll*
To inform the American people that stealing another person’s work is a-okay?
*raspberry*
“.... good money can be made in HVAC and in his case he will be making people comfortable rather than annoyed.....”
Agreed. I did it for years, had my own HVAC company and sold it to one of my younger techs when I retired. Made a very good living from it, but it takes a strong mathematical, analytical background and understanding of technical issues and reasoning. And it can usually be a hot, nasty, sweaty, dirty job requiring some degree of “hands-on” skills such as soldering, etc. One doesn’t see to many SJW types and/or libs in that line of business.
We’d try to hire a couple of young folks as summer help each year....most of em didn’t last a single day in the field. Instead, we ended up hiring HVAC trade school students as summer help. A few of those would make it through the summer, but a lot of em soon quit and changed their career paths.
This article is poorly written to boot.
Stupid question, but what would happen in no Republican Committee Members showed up to the Witch Trial?
I’m sure the Rats would have used that strategy if the shoe was on the other foot.
I heard that the dem keeper of the 1-page summary sheet is named Zeke Hile.
Are you for real?
The author gave Katie Pavlich proper credit for her article.
Would you accuse those that post entire articles here of ‘stealing?’
Come on, T-c. I know you are better than that.
*raspberry* Neener neener.
It is called referencing i.e. referring to another piece as viable to bring the reader into the picture and inform them
I see no issue if the initial author is given credit for creation of the piece as in a footnote or other means
If we follow what you say then noting where say something in the Bible or other work is relevant you have an issue with it
Seeking to understand your base premise
People who post articles on FR are doing it for discussion purposes, not as the major part of their own, for-pay, published piece.
Maybe Townhall has changed to a kibbitzing site and I missed it.
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