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Democrats are violating every standard of due process. It will backfire.
Washington Post ^ | Oct. 24, 2019 | Marc A. Thiessen

Posted on 11/02/2019 3:19:22 AM PDT by Windflier

One of the charges Democrats have leveled against Trump is that the White House improperly put the transcript of his call with the Ukrainian president on a special server used to protect highly classified information. Yet Democrats are doing the very same thing, conducting impeachment depositions inside a SCIF, improperly using a classified system to restrict access to nonclassified information not just to the public but to members of Congress. Talk about hypocrisy.

Let’s be clear: There is nothing wrong with holding hearings behind closed doors as long as there is due process. During the Nixon impeachment much of the evidence was presented in closed-door sessions. But there was not a flood of leaks from those executive sessions, as we are seeing today. And unlike today, the minority could issue subpoenas, and the president’s counsel was present to cross-examine witnesses and present evidence. Secrecy and fairness go hand in hand. One without the other is corrupt.

The partisan nature of the Democrats’ inquiry will backfire in a number of ways. For one thing, it allows Republicans to make the case to the American people that the process is unfair, and if there is one thing Americans demand, it is fairness. If the facts are on the Democrats’ side, they have nothing to fear from transparency and due process. Second, their partisan behavior has given the president justification to refuse to cooperate with the investigation, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower refused to cooperate with the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. And finally, it has made it easier for congressional Republicans to rally around the president. Right now, Republicans are more torn about Trump’s Syria policy than they are about his impeachment inquiry. By failing to show even a modicum of fairness, Democrats have turned impeachment into a game of shirts vs. skins.

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1 posted on 11/02/2019 3:19:22 AM PDT by Windflier
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To: Windflier

WaPo said that? wow. Even a broken clock is right twice a day...


2 posted on 11/02/2019 3:30:42 AM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: Windflier

This is from WAPO? A prime rat supporter? For this outfit to turn against the rats, there must be something terribly wrong behind the scenes.


3 posted on 11/02/2019 3:32:03 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: Windflier

It will only backfire if people go out and vote and kick out the democrats from all elected offices, like in the state of Virginia.I

Please vote, folks.

JoMa


4 posted on 11/02/2019 3:36:23 AM PDT by joma89
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To: Windflier

It already has backfired. They got 0 votes from Republicans including the many RINOs and never-Trumpers because of this.

In 1998 when the GOP ran a fair inquiry, 31 of 206 Democrats voted for it (15% of their caucus). What a big difference.


5 posted on 11/02/2019 3:43:53 AM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: Windflier
This is a war. The House is is in enemy hands. It would be a sign from heaven if
Schiff, Nadler and Pelosi don't come back from Congressional break.
6 posted on 11/02/2019 3:44:58 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Cyclops08; redfreedom

IINM, this is from a token conservative. This is not the WaPo’s position on the issue.


7 posted on 11/02/2019 3:50:40 AM PDT by Ken H (Crooked Hillary => Queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, personification of rot)
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To: Ken H

I think all WaPo is doing....is preparing hard-set folks for the let-down that will come in about four months. Once the impeachment effort comes to a closure and Trump is standing there with most of a billion dollars in campaign funds from supporters and ‘life’ still in his system....they are screwed.

Look over at numbers for Warren, Sanders, and the rest. Beto is finished today. Trump may end up with 45 states in the Electoral College.


8 posted on 11/02/2019 3:54:05 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Windflier

Blind squirrel..... nut....


9 posted on 11/02/2019 4:01:42 AM PDT by motor_racer (If you don't read the news, you are uninformed. If you read the news, you are misinformed.)
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To: Windflier
For Johnson, Nixon and Bubba, the Judiciary committee was the lead agency.

That's one HUGE difference that is going on for President Trump.

And that tells me that there is a greater chance of Dem conspiracy....particularly since the whistleblower met with Schitt....and there is no difference between the whistleblower meeting with Schitt's staff member and Schitt himself....since that staff member represents and conveys "everything" to Schitt. IF that was not so, then Schitt would have to say that he "knew nothing" of the whistleblower BEFORE the complaint was filed.

AND no one has mentioned a date that the whistleblower met with Schitt's staff. We need a precise date....and I'm almost betting that it was JUST BEFORE the phone call.

10 posted on 11/02/2019 4:07:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Ken H

Agreed


11 posted on 11/02/2019 4:07:39 AM PDT 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: Windflier

Just a note....The law under which Andrew Johnson was impeached was repealed as being unconstitutional.


12 posted on 11/02/2019 4:09:48 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ChronicMA
They got 0 votes from Republicans including the many RINOs and never-Trumpers because of this.

Uh, no. The message has gotten through. Do that and their dead, Jim.

13 posted on 11/02/2019 4:10:26 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Trump is masterful and the rats and their media sidekicks are bumbling idiots being played


14 posted on 11/02/2019 4:27:46 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: Cyclops08

......WAPO said that?

Thiessen is also from the American Enterprise Institute and is often on Fox. Rest assured this is not the position of the ComPost.


15 posted on 11/02/2019 4:30:03 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Windflier

Didn’t a young lawyer working on Nixon’s impeachment get fired for trying to deny Nixon due process during that impeachment process?

Democrat leadership had integrity back then. unfortunately today that young lawyer may be behind the scenes and hasn’t changed her modus operandi.


16 posted on 11/02/2019 4:33:21 AM PDT by June2
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To: Windflier

Who woke up at that trash toilet paper propaganda rag known as the Washiting Post.


17 posted on 11/02/2019 4:40:56 AM PDT by wetgundog
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To: Windflier
"Fighting vicious Chicago mobsters was nothing compared to dealing with certain members of Congress!"
~David Schippers~
Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment. Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company, September 2000

David Schippers led the Justice Department’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Unit, under Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and convicted Sam Giancana et al. Schippers was a staunch Chicago Democrat. He voted to elect Bill Clinton twice. He served as chief investigative counsel for the House Judiciary committee during the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

The Democrats MUST stop President Trump. They know that he will be re-elected in a landslide victory and will expose the TRUTH about them and their crimes. TRUTH will destroy them.

They have tried everything. They have combed through every possible record for 3 years and found NOTHING.

"Impeachment" is their last desperate last-ditch effort to stop Trump and to stop TRUTH!

They are cornered. They are desperate. They are dangerous. NOTHING is beneath them.

THE AMERICA PEOPLE SEE THIS FOR EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.
EVERYONE SEES THIS FOR EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.
THE HONEST ACKNOWLEDGE IT.

The Democrat Party is truly the Party of HATE, VIOLENCE, AND EVIL!
It's long ignominious history--from the pro-slavery party--to the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and lynching--to infanticide, communism, satanism, coup d'état, "high tech lynching"--and "IMPEACHMENT"--continues as the PARTY OF HATE, VIOLENCE, AND EVIL!

NOBODY IS FOOLED BY THEM!

EVIL IS THE ULTIMATE STUPIDITY!

18 posted on 11/02/2019 4:41:43 AM PDT by Savage Beast (TRUTH, as clearly as we can perceive it and put it into words, is the best we can do.)
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To: Windflier
“They’re doing this because this is what the guilty do.”
~Rep. Eric Swalwell~
Democrat
California

19 posted on 11/02/2019 4:46:25 AM PDT by Savage Beast (TRUTH, as clearly as we can perceive it and put it into words, is the best we can do.)
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To: Windflier

This was in the WaPoo??? Who is this heretic!?


20 posted on 11/02/2019 4:46:45 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would be have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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