It lasted for years and gave the Democrats plausibility to argue that the president had committed obstructions of justice. No matter that they were incongruously arguing that the president was inexplicably obstructing his own exoneration, a great part of the American electorate doesn't go that deeply into these things. Some damage was done.
During these years when the Mueller investigation hung-fire, the president was virtually hamstrung in effecting his policy objectives legislatively and it was only through his personal determination that he was able to accomplish prodigious policy accomplishments through regulation. Case in point, the diversion of funds to build the wall. Trump was also able to affect domestic policy reforms through foreign policy such as tariffs and threat of tariffs against Mexico to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border.
In the battle to win the election of 2020 there are two considerations: 1) energize your own base and discourage your opponent's base; 2) win the all-important independents who often decide elections -in this case with emphasis on educated, suburban females. No doubt this impeachment gambit will energize the base on both sides. The danger for both sides is in the timing. When will the hollowness of the charge be exposed, will it take years for justice to be made public as it did in the Moeller investigation? Or will the president die by a thousand cuts?
Who was in control of the Moeller investigation? Obviously, Moeller was and he, knowing that there was no collusion with Russia, quite deliberately delayed his exoneration of Trump until after the midterm elections.
Who will be in control of the Ukrainegate hoax? By all indications, the House Democrats and the media. The house Democrats have planned this Ukrainegate hoax. We know that because the letter of complaint was written in lawyerly language and, more obviously, because the rules concerning a hearsay complaint were liberalized just-in-time to qualify this hearsay complaint made by a Soros stooge.
Is it not logical to suppose that the Democrats have more planned than just the liberalization of the complaint process and the complaint itself?
That should be pondered in connection with the ability of the Democrats to prolong the process and to go fishing with subpoenas and so forth. Why otherwise would Nancy Pelosi have purported to transform this affair into an impeachment inquiry even before she had read either the transcript or the so-called "whistleblower" complaint? I think step three in the plan is to subpoena the administration to death, tag each witness with innuendo, exaggerate and prevaricate any possible impeachable peccadillo and run the show up to November 2020 or some other opportune moment.
Who else might have control over the proceedings and over the perception which is ladled out to the American public? The administration, the House Republicans, and the Republican Senate. Is there anyone reading this who believes that anyone of these three entities will mount an effective counter charge? Only a fool will believe that the truth will emerge or that the truth will emerge in time.
The administration had better put up someone better than Giuliani to fight this fight. The House Republicans should put up somebody better than McCarthy. The Senate should put up anybody, just anybody for God's sake.
