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Posted on 09/30/2026 6:29:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There are more charges than ever, but once again, it’s really for daring to stand against the Left.
Well, this isn’t going to go anywhere, at least unless the Democrats win a big victory in November, but Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) is (mercifully) on his way out of Congress, and apparently this is his bid for immortality. Just like the New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who miraculously transformed an arguable misdemeanor into 34 felonies in order to give the left a weapon against Donald Trump, Cohen has now shown an impressive talent for making mountains out of molehills, filing his own 26 articles of impeachment against the hated Orange Man Bad. Most of them are as insubstantial as Bragg’s felony charges, and amount to nothing more than the attempt to prosecute Trump for daring not to be a leftist.
Cohen kicks off this latest Trump hatefest with a bang: Newsweek reported Saturday that Article I is “Undermining Democracy—Sowing Doubt in Elections.” Now, leftists have been claiming that Trump is “undermining democracy” by “sowing doubt in elections” ever since they stole the presidential election of 2020, but this is an exquisitely hypocritical place to start. Here is video of Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Jimmy Carter, Hakeem Jeffries, Joe Biden, Al Gore, John Edwards, and a horde of other Democrats sowing doubt in elections. When they do it, of course, it’s heroic and courageous, or, in the argot of today, stunning and brave. When Trump does it, Steve Cohen wants him impeached.
But really, Steve, this is silly stuff, and it doesn’t get any less absurd as it goes on. Article II is “Abuse of Power—Waging War on Iran Without Congressional Approval.” The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) noted back in 2016, when Trump wasn’t even impeachable yet, that the Democrats’ hero and model for emulation, Barack Hussein Obama, “invaded Libya in 2011 without even asking for congressional approval,” and “Libya wasn’t the only war Obama waged without asking Congress first. Throughout his presidency, Obama waged a drone war in Pakistan and Yemen. He claimed authority for this war by citing the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), Congress passed in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, authorizing President Bush’s regime change in Afghanistan.”
Barack Obama, in fact, was just as hypocritical as Steve Cohen. AEI states that even after Obama had engaged in all this military action without congressional approval, the self-righteous pontificator intoned: “If a threat is serious enough to require the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, then members of Congress should at least have the courage to make clear where they stand … by fulfilling their constitutional duty to authorize the use of force against the threats we face today.”
Oh, and by the way, Old Joe Biden also carried out several military strikes without seeking congressional approval.
After that, Cohen adds anti-Americanism to his absurdity. Article III is “Abuse of Power—Extrajudicial Killings in International Waters of Venezuela.” Will the Democrats impeach the president of the United States for impeding the activities of international drug cartels that have destroyed the lives of innumerable Americans? Watch them try.
Cohen also wants Trump removed from office for “Abuse of Power—Deploying Military Forces Against United States Cities,” which is Article IV. So here again, will the Democrats impeach a president for trying to protect Americans from riots? I wouldn’t put it past them at all.
Article V is “Violation of Oath—The Birthright Citizenship Executive Order,” and this is one of many of Cohen’s articles that try to portray Trump governing as a president who believes in secure borders and sane immigration laws as if it were a criminal offense. Democrats have behaved for years as if they want to make opposition to their agenda a criminal act, as in the Biden FBI’s hounding of pro-life Catholics, and now Cohen wants to make not being a Democrat impeachable.
Cohen even charges Trump with “Abuse of Power—The Corrupt Use of the Pardon Power,” which is Article XVIII. Now, the U.S. Constitution says that the president “shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” That’s all it says about that. So unless Trump was pardoning officeholders who were impeached (he wasn’t), then there simply are no Constitutional parameters for determining what is corrupt use of the pardon power versus the upright, decent use of the pardon power. What this boils down to is that Trump pardoned people Cohen doesn’t like, just as many of his other articles boil down to “Trump did something Democrats don’t like.”
The extent to which Cohen’s ridiculous articles of impeachment gain any traction will be a measure of just how much our government, in this age of the Deep State, has deteriorated.
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When Donald Trump entered office in 2017, I thought that the Democrats would make it an eight year long Roadrunner cartoon. I was wrong. It is going to be a twelve year long Roadrunner cartoon, including the 2021-2025 interregnum.
The cards Republicans have to play are the culture wars card, the tougher on crime card, and the keep taxes low card. If they play them effectively, the core MAGA base will be motivated to come out to vote. Unfortunately, the 2026 version of Reagan Democrats are more motivated by economic issues and the alt-right types (Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, et. al.) have been alienated by Trump attacking Iran and his failure to go after the Democrats who tried to sabotage him, from Hillary and Obama on down. Then you have the RINO types who have been anti-MAGA from 2015 onward and who want to sabotage this Administration, e.g., Karl Rove.
It is a tough field the Republicans have to play, but barring some catastrophe in October, the GOP may not suffer a massive loss this time. As for the Senate, North Carolina is a probable loss, and Ohio, Texas, Maine, and even Kansas are iffy. There is a possible pickup in Michigan. If we go 50-50 on the four in question, we wind up with a 51-49 split.
Notice the zeal of democrats to wield power. They will immediately indict with no evidence required. Whereas, Republicans are drowning in evidence of high treason, and just cannot get it together to even offer much resistance, much less actual active effort.
But the will say, it’s coming, it’s coming. Been saying that for years.
Remember how Democrats voted against impeaching Clinton on the grounds that the crimes of perjury and obstruction of justice “didnt rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors”?
I hope the rats lose big time.
Say what you will about Vance, But he is not a uniparty stooge like Mike 20 Pense is.
They won’t impeach because Vance would be a legitimate threat to them.
My thoughts exactly!
IF they win, they will waste all their time and whatever political capital they have on this. No legislation gets thru and any that would gets a veto which they’ll have to override.
They won’t get 66+1 in the Senate to convict. So again, time and capital spent and it goes nowhere.
AND, if by miracle they win, impeach and convict, they’ll get JD Vance as president.
As Dirty Harry said, “Go ahead, make my day.”
The biggest problem for Republicans in mid terms is TURN OUT. And we can see here, right on Free Republic, demoralized and deminished Republican zeal due to the Iran war, failure to get any EOs from leftist judges’ nays and total failure of a thin margin GOP and RINO failure to pass legislation like the SAVE act.
We HAVE to get our numbers out. There is no other way.
I’m just not sure we can do so, even with a barnstorming Trump.
I suppose here at Free Republic we need to be a constant thorn in other peoples’ sides to GET OUT AND VOTE.
If you have any friends or relatives that want to pass on this election, you need to work on them!
Churches too, should have sermons on not failing to vote. It is a God given right that HAS TO BE used; an obligation.
If you can’t beat him, impeach him.
Democrats keep proving why their party shouldn’t exist it’s bad for the country and the people in it.
Idiots keep electing Bart Simpsons.
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