Posted on 09/27/2019 5:52:26 AM PDT by taildragger
Democrats push impeachment on Ukraine
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
Democrats are on the brink of impeaching President Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has thrown her support behind it. Over 230 House Democrats now say they will vote for it. It is no longer a question of if but when Democrats impeach the president.
This should come as no surprise. Since Trump’s election in November 2016, rabid progressives and the anti-Trump resistance have been demanding his removal from office. They view him as illegitimate—a moral stain on the nation’s conscience. They thought Russia collusion would serve as their pretext. This failed miserably. Hence, they have found another casus belli: Ukraine.
Citing an unidentified whistleblower, the Democratic-media complex has been breathlessly claiming that President Trump in a July phone call sought to extort Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “manufacture” dirt on potential Democratic rival, Joe Biden. There is, however, only one problem. Trump called their bluff.
The White House released the transcript of the conversation. It reveals the very opposite of what the Fake News media has been reporting. It was a routine diplomatic call. Trump congratulated Zelensky for his party having won the country’s parliamentary elections. Trump never—not once—threatened to withdraw America’s $400 million military aid to Ukraine. In fact, the aid package is never mentioned.
Trump does ask Zelensky for a “favor”—but in regards to investigating allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. “I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike,” Trump says, referring to the private security firm that examined the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s emails. Those emails were eventually leaked to Wikileaks, and were highly embarrassing to Hillary Clinton. The DNC refused to hand their server over to be analyzed by FBI forensics experts. Instead, they had Crowdstrike do it. And the company’s server is based in Ukraine—meaning it could shed light on whether Russian intelligence agents really did hack the DNC’s emails.
In other words, Trump is asking Zelensky to investigate the central crime of the 2016 election: namely, that the Clinton campaign—through Fusion GPS and the Christopher Steele dossier—sought to dig up opposition research from Russia’s intelligence agencies in order to smear then-candidate Trump. Clearly, Trump is still very upset—and I don’t blame him—for being set-up as a puppet of Vladimir Putin. Yet, there is nothing wrong or illegal about asking a foreign leader to investigate alleged meddling in a U.S. presidential election.
Moreover, much of the call centers on Zelensky’s insistence that he is serious about cracking down on graft and corruption. In fact, Zelensky’s entire campaign was based on an anti-corruption platform, pledging to sweep out the venal old guard. Ukraine’s corruption is rampant; powerful oligarchs have plundered the country. It is in this context that Biden and his son, Hunter, are mentioned.
Trump asks Zelensky to look into the firing of the former top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma, the natural gas company in which Hunter Biden was on the board. He was collecting $83,000 a month (for doing nothing). In May 2018, Joe Biden publicly bragged that, when he was vice president, he deliberately withheld $1 billion in U.S. aid unless Shokin was pushed out, thereby ending the investigation into Burisma—and of course, shielding Hunter from any prosecution. It was Biden who engaged in sleazy, criminal behavior, using American taxpayer dollars to blackmail a foreign government into allowing his drug addict son to continue enriching himself. In all, Hunter amassed over $3 million in Ukraine (through China his equity firm would collect $1.5 billion—an obscene sum). In short, Biden is one of the most corrupt politicians in Washington. Trump did what he is supposed to do: investigate Biden’s illicit activity and demand the new Ukrainian government honor its commitment to tackle corruption.
Trump’s real crime is that he’s serious about draining the swamp. In his call with Zelensky, there was no quid pro quo. Yet, if Democrats insist on impeaching the president on such flimsy grounds, it will blow up in their face. Biden’s candidacy will implode as the country hears about his shady Ukraine dealings. More importantly, the House Democrats will be fully exposed for the fanatics and unhinged Trump haters that they are. And ultimately, it will all fail for one simple reason: The Senate will never convict the president. Hence, this is an exercise in futility.
Impeachment, however, will tear the country apart. The intense polarization will only grow; America will be engulfed in a political and constitutional crisis that will paralyze the government. The radical left and their media allies now control the Democratic Party. They are willing to burn the country down in their blood lust to get Trump. Middle America will not forgive them. Nor should we.
-Jeffrey T. Kuhner is host of “The Kuhner Report” on WRKO AM-680 in Boston. His daily show airs 6:00-10:00 am EST. He can be reached at: jeffreykuhner@iheartmedia.com
Of course not.
If they do (convict in the senate) then Washington needs to be visited by patriots en masse.
Cause as much chaos and distress as possible, then say, ‘Get rid of this outsider and return the old order to power, and all the chaos and distress will go away.’
This may well be enough to swing the mush minded voters back on the road to socialism.
Well, first, I think it already has blown up. Secondly, most of the public hasn't heard about Biden's other problem -- China.
I think it's clear that Trump had no quid pro quo with Ukraine. Still, the media wants to push the narrative that President Trump did something wrong. But when people learn about China, I think it becomes hard to say "There Trump goes again!" What? Why? How? With both Ukraine and China on the table it becomes really easy to see the shakedown operation that the Biden's were running.
Trump didn’t.
Biden did.
The party of lies, deceit and stupidity!
No one can think for themselves. Their hatred for America will be their demise.
The rats are running off the cliffs.
Ask the right questions Jeff or get a new job.
In other words, Trump is asking Zelensky to investigate the central crime of the 2016 election: namely, that the Clinton campaign—through Fusion GPS and the Christopher Steele dossier—sought to dig up opposition research from Russia’s intelligence agencies in order to smear then-candidate Trump. Clearly, Trump is still very upset—and I don’t blame him—for being set-up as a puppet of Vladimir Putin. Yet, there is nothing wrong or illegal about asking a foreign leader to investigate alleged meddling in a U.S. presidential election. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
This is the salient point of this article.
But the problem is there is something wrong or illegal about what President Trump did ACCORDING TO THE TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.
President Trump is actually uncovering how members of the Democrat Party and various operatives at the FBI, CIA and DOJ committed sedition against The American People and a duly elected President.
The truth is that President Trump now has the Dems and their foreign agents by the short hairs and they are actually shitting themselves in fear.
KEEP WINNING PRESIDENT TRUMP
And we should celebrate his victory.
Now the supposed “crime” isn’t what he said during the phone call, but trying to hide evidence of phone calls, not just this one.
The media says: We heard you made a phone call and it makes you look bad!!
President Trump says: Here's the transcript.
The media says: "Trying the hide stuff from us, huh? Well, you won't get away with it!
President Trump says: You have the transcript. Go ahead and it read it.
The media says: We will impeach you for this!
This author is missing a key point. This party unity of 230 Democrats to support an “impeachment inquiry” puts the only ankle deep. However if after such an inquiry and when no hard evidence is brought before the American people, and then they vote for actual impeachment, then they will have irrevocably crossed the Rubicon. The American people will reject them. Look for almost all Democrats to say the support an “inquiry”. Hopefully the “squad” and the other frenzied radicals will force Pelosi to hold a vote that puts all Democrats on record and associated with the impeachment word.
Leftards will use mysticism (dishonesty, emotionalism, non sequiturs, and rationalization) to continue their parasitic lifestyle (mooching and looting). This is their power structure, which anti-Trump repubs agree with, and what Trump is fighting against.
This whole think is high comedy to me. They remind me of a guy that’s been eating sausage his whole life and, one day visits a sausage factory and is repulsed by their use of animals that they kill.
People need to grow up.
Also, regarding the “whistleblower” complaint. I see it as typical attack stuff. It’s one person, visiting the sausage factory, and having been turned down sexually by the owner’s daughter, whistleblowing that there are dead animals in sausage.
They’d have a better chance with it if the whistleblower was female because they could fall back on #ibeleveher.
I’m enjoying this very much. :)
Which brings up the question Candor7, are they right over the target since they are taking so much flak. My gut feel is telling me this whole Russian Collusion operation was started in the Ukraine as were a lot of the Obama/Biden/Clinton operations / scams and Team Trump is about to hit the motherload now that they have a leader that isn't corrupt and those that didn't burn or shread data (paper or digital) know that they will be hero's by helping Zelensky as they hand over what the O-B-C team couldn't destroy.
It wouldn't surprise me if there is even more John Kerry connections, and I am waiting on more connections with McCain.
Let it all hang out Ukraine, we got a big mess to clean up!
Laura Ingraham played a clip last night showing that Trump frequently uses the expression "do me a favor" whenever he talks about anything.
Oh my gosh Sales 101! Lol! and I mean it! You enlist peoples support especially in the 501c3 arena. If people like you, trust you, and you ask for their help they are so willing. That is what people do not get about PDJT (& by extension Jared & Ivanka, I believe they have it in spades) this is a learned technique, but it has to be genuine. There is a head of a famous organization that I will not name, started by a simple blue collar guy of Ukrainian or Polish decent. On the dias he was not polished, not the greatest speaker, but boy the one on one where he was talking to the guys and gals and he asked them for help they never said no, they liked (more liked loved) him and his cause, they would do anything for him. Very much like President Donald J. Trump. Gosh it never gets old saying he's POTUS!
It’s crazy how most of the media misleads what Trump was asking a favor for. He was asking to have them look at the Russia issue.
The American people will reject them.
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