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Victor Davis Hanson: The Frightened Left - Weaponizing impeachment is just one many precedents that Leftists now would not wish to have applied to themselves
American Thinker ^ | 11 Sep, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/11/2023 4:53:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber

An impeachment inquiry looms and the shrieks of outrage are beginning.

The Left is now suddenly voicing warnings that those who recently undermined the system could be targeted by their own legacies.

So, for example, now we read why impeachment is suddenly a dangerous gambit.

True, the Founders did not envision impeaching a first-term president the moment he lost his House majority. Nor did they imagine impeaching a president twice. And they certainly did not anticipate trying an ex-president in the Senate as a private citizen.

In modern times, the nation has not rushed to impeach a president without a special counsel investigation to determine whether the chief executive was guilty of “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

But thanks to the Democrats, recent impeachments now have destroyed all those guardrails. After all, Trump was impeached the first time on the fumes of an exhaustive but fruitless 22-month, $40 million special counsel investigation—one designed to find him guilty of Russian “collusion” and thus to be removed from office but found no actionable offenses at all.

Instead, dejected Democrats moved immediately for a second try. In September 2019 a few weeks after Trump had announced his 2020 reelection bid, the Democratic House began to impeach the president on the new grounds that he had talked to the President Zelensky of Ukraine and said he might delay offensive arms shipments—unless the Ukrainians could demonstrate that they had ended corruption and, in particular, were no longer influenced by the Biden family quid pro quo shakedowns.

Trump was proven right: the Biden family is not just corrupt, but, in particular, Joe Biden as head of the family and Vice President had intervened in the internal politics of an aid recipient, by threatening not to delay but rather to cancel outright...

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1 posted on 09/11/2023 4:53:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It did not take a genius to know that Trump was right about the Biden bribery in Ukraine. Pedo-Joe was videotaped bragging about it. But the ‘RATs tried to impeach Trump over the phone call anyway.


2 posted on 09/11/2023 4:54:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Some very evil people in our government are ruthlessly trying to protect THEIR interests.


3 posted on 09/11/2023 5:00:25 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MtnClimber

As a nation, we are “Heading downhill like a snowball heading towards Hell”.


4 posted on 09/11/2023 5:03:08 AM PDT by Tupelo ( e pluribus unum is now ex uno multis)
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Trump was proven right........ again:
<><>the Biden family is not just corrupt,
<><>but VP Joe Biden, Crime Family head, intervened in the internal politics of a US aid recipient,
<><>Biden threatened on video to cancel all mandated US aid to Ukraine amounting to billions.
<><>Biden desperately wanted prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired for investigating his son’s employer.
<><>The hidden agenda was to protect whoring cokehead, Hunter.
<><>The safety and security of Americans was ignored.


5 posted on 09/11/2023 5:10:35 AM PDT by Liz
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"Some very evil people in our government are ruthlessly trying to protect THEIR interests."

And at the expense and well being of the country and the American people. Some might call that treason.

6 posted on 09/11/2023 5:11:10 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: MtnClimber

Well duh.


7 posted on 09/11/2023 5:14:53 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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Start and inquiry and just take in docs and leak them. Everything up to the names of the prostees Hunter slept with. Just lay it all out and let the American public look at it.

There doesn’t have to be an impeachment, and honestly, like Clinton, the process might actually make Biden a martyr.


8 posted on 09/11/2023 5:18:02 AM PDT by struggle
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Should the miracle occur of President Trump's second term, does anyone think for
a moment the despicable democrats won't start the harassment immediately?

If so, I have several useless items for sale at exorbitant prices.

Please pm me for details.

9 posted on 09/11/2023 5:22:16 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Flâneur@Large)
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An impeachment inquiry WRT Biden looms and the left’s shrieks of outrage are beginning.
They “warn” that those of the Dem party who undermined the system due to their hatred of Trump
could be targeted by their own legacies. So now we read why impeachment is suddenly
“a dangerous gambit” (when used against one of their own).

True, the Founders did not envision
<><>impeaching a first-term president the moment he lost his House majority.
<><>Nor did they imagine impeaching a president twice.
<><>And they certainly did not anticipate trying an ex-president as a private citizen.


Impeachment was supposed to involve a president a special counsel investigation to determine whether the chief executive was guilty of “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

But thanks to the Democrats, recent impeachments now have destroyed all those guardrails.

Trump was impeached the first time on the fading fumes of an exhaustive but fruitless 22-month, $40 million special counsel investigation, designed to find him guilty of Russian “collusion,” to be removed from office....... but found no actionable offenses at all.

Dejected Democrats moved immediately for a second try. In Sept 2019, the Democratic House began to impeach the president on the new grounds that he had talked to Zelensky of Ukraine and said he might delay offensive arms shipments—unless the Ukrainians could demonstrate that they had ended corruption and, in particular, were no longer influenced by the Biden family quid pro quo shakedowns.


10 posted on 09/11/2023 5:24:40 AM PDT by Liz ( Trump was proven right: the Biden family is not just corrupt, but, in particular, Joe Biden as hea)
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We are witnessing the collapse of America resulting after decades of increasing debasement and corruption.


11 posted on 09/11/2023 5:32:34 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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12 posted on 09/11/2023 5:33:58 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: masadaman; Alberta's Child; Alouette; AndyJackson; Aria; Basket_of_Deplorables; BatGuano; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Will they file charges against Vice President Kamala Harris for “inciting” ongoing violent demonstrations with monotonous, emphatic, and repetitive threats in the weeks before her nomination? Contrary to liberal “fact checkers” at time of nationwide violence, Harris certainly did not distinguish violent from non-violent protests, but in fact implied that they were intimately tied to the upcoming election and beyond. So given the hundreds of police officers injured, the hundreds of millions in property damage, and the dozens killed, what exactly did Harris mean by tying that ongoing summer of often violent protests to Election Day?:

“But they’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop, and this is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not gonna stop, and everyone beware, because they’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not gonna stop after Election Day. Everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they’re not going to let up — and they should not. And we should not.”

Weaponization of the US Court system - it could be a tool used by both sides ...

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13 posted on 09/11/2023 5:43:56 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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Absent real death, weaponizing is ineffective


14 posted on 09/11/2023 5:45:07 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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Turnabout is always fair play.

L


15 posted on 09/11/2023 5:49:45 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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BTTT


16 posted on 09/11/2023 5:51:56 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: chief lee runamok

Upon the highly unlikely multiple miracles that must happen for Trump to be allowed another term, he will not have even a single day of governance. He will certainly not be allowed to appoint any real agents of change in his cabinet.


17 posted on 09/11/2023 5:55:33 AM PDT by KobraKai
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Sure sounds like treasonable offenses to me. Let’s get the ball rolling on the Biden administration! Who knows what all might turn up if they conducted it like the fishing expedition they are doing on Trump?


18 posted on 09/11/2023 6:05:43 AM PDT by oldtech
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It’s time to impeach every one of the cabinet members and their staffs.


19 posted on 09/11/2023 6:09:24 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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Impeachment and conviction in the Senate are valid and needed tools to be used for ChiComjoe and his traitorous kakistocracy. This then needs to be followed by trials, convictions, and sentencing for giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.


20 posted on 09/11/2023 6:12:15 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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