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The three big lies Democrats are pushing in Tuesday’s impeachment hearing
nypost ^ | 11/19/2019 | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 11/19/2019 9:16:14 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

In Tuesday morning’s impeachment inquiry hearing, in the questioning of Lt.-Col. Alexander Vindman of the White House National Security Council and Jennifer Williams of Vice President Mike Pence’s staff, Democrats are pressing three misleading themes.

First, Chairman Adam Schiff and the Democrats’ counsel, Daniel Goldman, have attempted to frame a dichotomy between President Trump and what they call “official” US foreign policy. It’s a false framework. Official policy is not, as they suggest, made by the so-called policy community (comprised mainly of the NSC, the State Department and government agents from the intelligence community and the armed services). The president makes American foreign policy.

The function of the policy community is to give the president its best advice and the benefit of its considerable knowledge and experience. But in our representative republic, policy is made by the only official who actually answers to the voters whose lives and interests are at stake — the president.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 116th; andrewmccarthy; braking; demlies; democrats; hearing; impeachment; lies; trumpukraine
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1 posted on 11/19/2019 9:16:14 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

THREE big and a wheelbarrow full of little ones. Lies that is.


2 posted on 11/19/2019 9:17:20 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Schiff has bit into a big bear’s a$$ and done found his self a bad case of lockjaw.


3 posted on 11/19/2019 9:19:31 AM PST by blackdog
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Their biggest fear as Hillary stated on election night is that the truth will come out and they will all hang.


4 posted on 11/19/2019 9:23:22 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

According to Lt.-Col. Alexander Vindman... He makes foreign policy, and the President is supposed to follow his advice.


5 posted on 11/19/2019 9:30:57 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

AG BARR’S SPEECH TO FEDERALIST SOCIETY ON 11/15/19
I’m skeptical until I hear the sound of handcuffs clicking around the wrists of the likes of OBAMA, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Clinton, Rice, Jarrett, Powers, etc...you know their names. And I don’t share some of his ideas on gun control, but it is what it is and he’s WHO we’ve got!
If arrests & trials are NOT forthcoming, I’ll pull this video as we officially have a 2 tier justice system & the now UNTOUCHABLES may have folks like me arrested, jailed...and worse.
https://www.brighteon.com/8bc29a60-c9c8-4f98-9a98-e121cd6c7965


6 posted on 11/19/2019 9:32:37 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The author of the article is actually Andrew McCarthy.


7 posted on 11/19/2019 9:38:53 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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8 posted on 11/19/2019 9:44:33 AM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine)
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To: Don Corleone
Their biggest fear as Hillary stated on election night is that the truth will come out and they will all hang.

We can all hope for this happy ending.

9 posted on 11/19/2019 9:47:09 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

we’re witnessing the suicide of the D party

its fascinating to watch, albeit the immoral depths they’ve sunk to with all their lies and slanders... are.. disgusting.

Dante’s vision of the eventual fate (in Hell) of liars and deceivers....

“I do not think that there was greater grief
in seeing all Aegina’s people sick
(then, when the air was so infected that
all animals, down to the little worm,
collapsed; and afterward, as poets hold
to be the certain truth, those ancient peoples
received their health again through seed of ants)
than I felt when I saw, in that dark valley,
the spirits languishing in scattered heaps.
Some lay upon their bellies, some upon
the shoulders of another spirit, some
crawled on all fours along that squalid road.
We journeyed step by step without a word,
watching the listening to those sick souls,
who had not strength enough to lift themselves. (Inf. XXIX, 58-72)


10 posted on 11/19/2019 9:57:25 AM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not , born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The biggest lie is being repeated over and over by all the Dems but nobody on the Republican side ever challenged it.

They say that the REASON Trump asked the favor was to help him in the election against Joe Biden. That is false and it is the central issue in the hearing. The inept Republicans have yet to challenge the assertion.

I’m waiting for someone to ask:

“Given the President’s repeated assertion that the Mueller Investigation was corrupt from the get go, that there was a cadre of corrupt individuals who started it, and given that President Trump made repeated promises to get to the bottom of it and make sure that ‘This never happens again to another president’ and given that the President promised repeatedly to ‘Drain the swamp!’, isn’t it possible that the President thought he was rooting out US corruption as part of his duty to ensure that US laws are enforced when he asked the favor rather than pursuing a corrupt, self-serving political agenda?”

Only the Democrat Castro even raised this point as he tried to dismiss the 2016 anti-Trump coup as a debunked conspiracy theory. Castro was actually arguing in defense of the President but nobody noticed. Even if the notion of Ukraine’s involvement in opposing Trump back in 2016 is a debunked conspiracy theory, President Trump believed it so his wanting to have an investigation was intended to be in the national interest and not an impeachable offense.

I’m so frustrated by the failures of the good guys to get a clue.


11 posted on 11/19/2019 10:36:39 AM PST by UnChained (Revelation 13:7 (Gun control is an absolute prerequisite for the slaughter that's coming)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder when this hurricane of farce will end. By now, everyone is at the gag point


12 posted on 11/19/2019 10:59:43 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m curious when that puffy little puke Vindman last took the Army’s PT test.


13 posted on 11/19/2019 11:27:42 AM PST by ScottinVA (Every liberal should be red-flagged.)
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To: Dick Bachert

get ready to pull


14 posted on 11/19/2019 11:35:28 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: ScottinVA

I had made the offhand comment that he didn’t even look like a soldier...maybe JAG, maybe MED but Combat Leader of Men???? doesn’t have that ‘look’.

OTOH, let me ‘criticize’ myself......

Audie Murphy didn’t look like a soldier either <: : <: <”:


15 posted on 11/19/2019 11:40:40 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: ChicagoConservative27; Admin Moderator

Author should be listed as Andrew McCarthy.


16 posted on 11/19/2019 11:45:34 AM PST by Fedora
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To: rktman

Besides the lies, there is the idiocy. Listening to these people claim that Ambassadress Masha had direct knowledge because she herself experienced being fired and put on a plane because of Trump’s conspiracy to get information about Biden set my teeth on edge. I’d rather drive 2,000 miles with a car full of screaming quarrelsome children then tune in to this crap. These are journalists and legislators? Either they are morons, or think that we are. Possibly both.


17 posted on 11/19/2019 11:48:36 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Chris Plante ‘told’ a good one this AM

We had an aircraft that ‘replaced’ the U2 called the Blackbird...RS 71

Word of it ‘leaked’ out and the speculation was bad (Cold War yaknow) and LBJ was going to defuse the situation...

LBJ started off with leading up to the ‘brand new’ aircraft we had and all its glories BUT kept referring to it as SR71.

After mentioning SR71 several times, the speech ended and an aide came up to him and pointed out that the plane was actually an RS71, NOT SR71...

LBJ looked him in the eye and said. NO MORE, it is now the SR7.

Talk about ‘making policy’.....

That is supposedly a TRUE story, and ‘knowing’ of LBJ and his obnoxious personality (or lack of) I can imagine it happening....


18 posted on 11/19/2019 11:51:16 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: jerod
"According to Lt.-Col. Alexander Vindman... He makes foreign policy, and the President is supposed to follow his advice."

And listen to LYING-SACK-OF-SCHIFF'S closing statement after the hearing.. The very last few sentences. He makes it CLEAR that President Trump is NOT to establish or steer U.S. foreign policy.

TREASON!

19 posted on 11/19/2019 12:13:50 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Official foreign policy?

Didn’t President Obama turn his back on defending NATO allies as Russia grew bolder?


20 posted on 11/19/2019 12:23:32 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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