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Newt Gingrich: Trump impeachment will bring Pelosi and House Democrats condemnation by history
Fox News ^ | Newt Gingrich

Posted on 01/18/2020 9:12:24 AM PST by jazusamo

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., seemed giddy Wednesday as she announced the impeachment managers who would go to the Senate and attempt to prosecute a case against President Trump.

“He’s been impeached forever,” Pelosi said. “They can never erase that.”

However, Pelosi has it exactly backward. The Senate is going to refuse to convict President Trump. He will be exonerated, and she and the Democrats will be condemned by history.

The wide repudiation of the House Democratic betrayal of the Constitution is already beginning. As a historian myself, I think it’s important to document these reactions.

Consider historian Victor Davis Hanson’s analysis for the National Review, which was subtitled: “The new normal: Impeachment as a routine partisan tool, endless investigations, lying under oath with impunity, surveillance of political enemies, zero accountability.”

This is hardly an endorsement of Pelosi’s trivialization of the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln scholar and highly respected historian Allen Guelzo asserted in The Wall Street Journal:

[Charles] Pinckney and [Rufus] King might have been right in 1787. Americans prefer to choose their presidents with elections, and whenever impeachment is used in an attempt to nullify those choices, the results aren’t happy for anyone. That was true in 1868, and as both Andrew Johnson and his accusers might warn us, it remains true after a century and a half.”

Clearly, Pelosi did not know enough history to understand the warnings of Pinckney and King – or the sad end of the impeachment process against President Johnson.

When he was interviewed by Arun Rath, Harvard law professor and ACLU liberal Alan Dershowitz commented:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; impeachment; pelosi; pelosisshame; presidenttrump; trump; ushouse
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To: jazusamo

Rudy G. will bring this to SCOTUS to declare illegal impeachment articles

Here Rudy explains to Judge Jeanine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6uXSfO_kic


41 posted on 01/18/2020 10:46:32 AM PST by Zenjitsuman ( p)
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To: RoseofTexas

“”Their demonic agenda: to destroy everything associated with the name Trump””

It’s much more than just the name Trump. His election put their train back on the tracks and they are going forward with their true agenda of bringing down the United States. You have to see it with the people who are being elected to Congress. We have always had weirdos but we are into the deep weeds now with communists running for office who aren’t the least bit bashful about their leanings - in fact proud of it and liberals don’t bat an eyelash.

This is NOT our country any longer - nothing in it represents anything resembling the country we were born and raised in.


42 posted on 01/18/2020 10:48:00 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Zenjitsuman

I hope Giuliani is scarce during anything to do with the Senate trial.. The president should know to keep him at a distance now and probably forever!


43 posted on 01/18/2020 10:49:34 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: BipolarBob

The Victors write History. Name one time when the Left was ever condemned by History. Even Hitler became Right-Wing through the
MSM narrative


44 posted on 01/18/2020 10:53:16 AM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: dp0622

I get your points but the presence of John Roberts makes me uneasy, if not queasy. There are also enough squishy GOP senators making noise that I cannot completely discount some sort of trouble ahead. Even if Trump is exonerated (and I agree with you that he will be in the end) any unnecessary prolonging of the proceedings could produce some negative fallout that sparks other mischief.

This unconstitutional travesty should be summarily dismissed but I fear it could drag out for awhile thereby effectively legitimizing this farce.


45 posted on 01/18/2020 11:12:04 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Starboard

I should rephrase that.

I’m like you. I’m not worried about him getting kicked out.

But I agree with you on all of the other points.


46 posted on 01/18/2020 11:20:26 AM PST 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: Berosus
Oh, they'll nominate one after 2020, but it won't go well. By 2024 Soros is likely to be dead (I figure it will be a "lone gunman" from one of the eastern European countries he's helped screw) and some of the other rich leftist a-holes will either have preceded him or be rotting in prison. I'd be surprised if a major "3rd party" effort on midterm seats doesn't get fired up in 2022 and really hit hard in 2024 and 2026. And, as I've said, imho Biden will be the nominee, he'll pick Buttplug as his running mate, and Sanders will die before the convention.

47 posted on 01/18/2020 11:48:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Hostage
If the above does not happen, the criminals in congress will have won and future criminals in Congress will be emboldened to think there are no consequences for their corruption

FACTS!

48 posted on 01/18/2020 11:58:11 AM PST by rdb3 (Gilmour, WRIGHT, Waters, Mason)
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To: jazusamo

Right. Sure it will.


49 posted on 01/18/2020 12:14:29 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Hostage
The Democrats are under a RICO like investigation. Those investigations always remain under the radar and suddenly there are enormous numbers of arrests.

I would like to believe that indictments of high-level democrat criminals are in the works - but I have my doubts. We are in the 3rd year of President Trump's administration. The courts recently exonerated Hillary. The AG has not investigated nor held a grand-jury of any elite democrat.

Until I see different, the cynical believe that 'the law is for the little people' seems to ring true.

50 posted on 01/18/2020 1:39:05 PM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: jazusamo

50 yrs from now very few will even remember Pelosi and anything she did or didn’t do. The same goes with the rest of her gang.


51 posted on 01/18/2020 2:07:46 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft ( #ReasonableDemocratsforTrump. Where are you?)
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To: Bob434

“EVERYONE who is honest knows she is doing this as a form of vindictiveness because he party lost”

Maybe she waited to release the documents so she could sign on the day Trump signed the China trade deal?


52 posted on 01/18/2020 2:44:45 PM PST by garjog
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To: Howie66
Why wait? I condemn these worthless, vile reprobates right now, in the strongest possible terms. May they rot in HELL.

Partner, we can not wait for history, but if you hear the airwaves around here folks are so P.O.ed at the DemonRat party for pulling this sham stunt by "Shiff for Brains and Pelousy" .

Pelousy will not be the Speaker of the House and Republicans will have a solid Majority in the "People's House" and the Senate. The DemonRat party has gone a bridge too far this time around.

53 posted on 01/18/2020 2:53:02 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: JesusIsLord

> “I would like to believe that indictments of high-level democrat criminals are in the works - but I have my doubts.”

Rudy Giuliani invented RICO and he said there is a RICO investigation. Those with doubts are likely listening to fake news or others in the fake news echo chamber.

> “We are in the 3rd year of President Trump’s administration.”

Irrelevant.

> “The courts recently exonerated Hillary.”

Not true.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/19/hillary-clinton-emails-judicial-watch-088478

The propaganda that nothing was found was a blatant lie. Also it involved a non-governmental entity Judicial Watch.

The DOJ is saying nothing about her emails. Doesn’t mean they are not investigating.

> “The AG has not investigated nor held a grand-jury of any elite democrat.”

We wouldn’t know even if there was an investigation and grand jury. These are secret and can only be known by us if there is a credible leak. Those with solid government experience say that AG Barr’s investigators are as tight-lipped as they come.

> “Until I see different, the cynical believe that ‘the law is for the little people’ seems to ring true.”

Those that refer to the ‘little people’ have issues that go beyond an informative discussions.


54 posted on 01/18/2020 3:00:17 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: bert

Well Bert, they don’t teach ‘Newt’ and his books in school do they? Newts readers graduated on average 40 years ago


55 posted on 01/18/2020 4:52:32 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: garjog

I’m sure she did- maximum scumminess on her part


56 posted on 01/18/2020 8:57:58 PM PST by Bob434
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To: jazusamo

I just want it to bring them back into the minority where they belong.


57 posted on 01/18/2020 9:38:33 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: jazusamo

Really good article. Thanks, jazusamo.


58 posted on 01/19/2020 2:28:48 AM PST by octex
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