Posted on 10/04/2019 12:18:06 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update, Part III (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
The Campaign Update hates to say it told you so, but, well, it told you so. – To the surprise of literally no one who has paid attention to his mendacious machinations to position himself to seek the 2020 GOP presidential nomination in the event of the ultimate removal of President Trump in this latest Deep State coup effort, Mitt Romney on Friday issued a series of tweets which for all intents and purposes put him in direct league with San Fran Nan and the Munchkin caucus in the House of Representatives:
Mitt Romney ✔ @MittRomney · 2h When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.
Mitt Romney ✔ @MittRomney By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.
You regular readers of Today’s Campaign Update already expected the 2012 loser Romney to make his next move, since we laid it all out for you in the Campaign Update for September 26. Seeking an opening to move into the mix for the 2020 nomination is the very reason why Romney sought retiring Senator Orrin Hatch’s open Utah senate seat in the first place in 2018.
The disloyal RINO believes his time has come with San Fran Nan’s fake impeachment circus, but let’s analyze what he says in his tweets through the lens of reality.
First, there’s this:
“When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.”
Ok, so which other American citizen worked with his ne’er-do-well son to implement a blatantly obvious pay for play scheme to leverage his high government office in recent years? I mean, other than Hillary Clinton, that is. I can’t think of any other high official accused of such shenanigans as they relate to China, although we now know it is likely San Fran Nan has been doing the same thing with her own son and Ukraine.
Michael Coudrey ✔ @MichaelCoudrey BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi's son, Paul Pelosi Jr. (who went to Ukraine in 2017) was a board member of Viscoil & executive at its related company NRGLab, which DID ENERGY Business in UKRAINE!
Nancy Pelosi is now also implicated in the Ukraine scandal.
Is the junior Senator from Utah suggesting that the sitting POTUS has no obligation to root out corruption in the U.S. government, whether it is current or in the recent past? Surely no man of God, which Romney piously claims to be, would hold such a belief.
Ok, then, is Romney suggesting that any Democrat who fears being investigated for corruption can obtain immunity by simply declaring his or her candidacy for the 2020 Democrat nomination? If that’s the legal principle this jackass is endorsing, imagine how many former DOJ/FBI/CIA officials – not to mention the Pantsuit Princess – will be lining up to file their papers with the FEC in the coming days.
Then there’s this:
“By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.”
Is the junior Senator simply unaware that the United States of America has anti-corruption treaties with both China and Ukraine, treaties that obligate both nations to perform full and complete investigations of allegations of corrupt acts by one anothers’ citizens in their countries when these kinds of allegations arise? Those are treaties entered into by previous presidential administrations, not this one.
Also, has the junior Senator simply never heard of this thing called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a law enacted in 1977, when Democrat James Earl Carter was president? Here is DOJ’s official description of that law:
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, 15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1, et seq. (“FCPA”), was enacted for the purpose of making it unlawful for certain classes of persons and entities to make payments to foreign government officials to assist in obtaining or retaining business. Specifically, the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA prohibit the willful use of the mails or any means of instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of any offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment of money or anything of value to any person, while knowing that all or a portion of such money or thing of value will be offered, given or promised, directly or indirectly, to a foreign official to influence the foreign official in his or her official capacity, induce the foreign official to do or omit to do an act in violation of his or her lawful duty, or to secure any improper advantage in order to assist in obtaining or retaining business for or with, or directing business to, any person.
Since 1977, the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA have applied to all U.S. persons and certain foreign issuers of securities. With the enactment of certain amendments in 1998, the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA now also apply to foreign firms and persons who cause, directly or through agents, an act in furtherance of such a corrupt payment to take place within the territory of the United States.
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The allegation related to Ukraine where Hunter Biden is concerned is that he was given a cushy, high-paying seat on the board of directors of a Ukraine gas company even though he held zero expertise in the energy world. Thus, the allegation is that the $50k/month he received was simply a bribe in exchange for access to his Vice President dad, who also happened to be Barack Obama’s point man on Ukraine policy.
The allegation related to China is that Hunter Biden’s investment firm – created right after his Dad became Vice President – took billions in fees from Chinese businesses in exchange for similar access to Dear ol’ Dad.
Given this blatant, transparent pay to play operation, and Joe Biden’s bragging about getting a Ukraine prosecutor who was investigating Hunter’s shenanigans fired, President Trump could legitimately be accused of dereliction of duty if he did NOT ask the Ukrainian and Chinese governments to investigate the matters.
Thus, the Junior Senator from Utah is in fact advocating the President break the law and ignore his oath of office.
What a despicable – and entirely predictable – thing for the 2012 loser to do.
That is all.
Romney should be censured by the GOP.
Your third blog post today.
Not getting enough attention?
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The GOP has no spine to do what you suggest.
I think it would be more expedient for the voters of Utah to throw the slimey bastard out.
Willard needs to crawl back into his rat hole.
While I think what Romney said is disgusting, has he come out in favor of the House impeaching Trump?
Go away Romney
You are an self serving traitorous idiot and
Your magic underwear stinks
IN this country.. ya can’t impeach an elected President just because ya don’t like him!! what are their charges? lying their way to impeachment... this is the United States... and they are treasonous in what they are doing..it is weakening our standing in the world and giving our President a bad name for those who don’t know squat... he is bringing our country out of the low obama caused..and Trump’s work is being ignored for efforts to impeach him.. what sense does that make!!
HA! Mormon > GOP in Utah...
Mittens, the best we can do. /s
Watching his funeral just made my bucket list.
Donors should sue Mitt for fraud...but most people knew he’s a traitor
Romney is the GOP.
Ryan is right there with him too.
I am still trying to figure out what constituency Romney thinks he’s appealing to?
Polls out now clearly show the GOP is Trumps party now.
Across the country the numbers of GOP NeverTrump’ers wouldn’t fill a medium high school football stadium.
Appeal to Rats maybe??? They’ll never vote for him!
Who tells him this is smart politics?
Does he not want a political future outside of Utah?
I think by the time his term is up maybe even Utah voters will be tired of him.
All he exhibits are the characteristics of a spoiled child jealous that someone got the nice shiny new toy and he didn’t.
What a case of Stockholm Syndrome. You’d think after the abuse the Democrats heaped on him during the 2012 election, he’d be their mortal enemy. Instead, he’s acting like the battered wife who attacks the cop who responds to the DV call.
Can someone in the Senate be recalled????
Will no one rid me of this meddlesome bishop?
Trump was just investigated for 3 years with the same kind of charges and Romney never spoke out to stop it. This moron is running for president and I can’t wait for him to get 15% in a Republican primary.
Mittens represents the corrupt, establishment uniparty... and yes, he threw the 2012 election.
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