Posted on 11/06/2019 5:16:46 AM PST by Kaslin
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists the impeachment procedures adopted last Thursday are "the fairest possible." Don't believe it.
In truth, a provision slyly added at the last minute is all but certain to deprive President Donald Trump of the ability to defend himself. Expect a one-sided propaganda circus with Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., acting as ringmaster.
Democrats are boasting about the "impeachment inquiry protections" offered to Trump, claiming they're the same as the rules devised for President Richard Nixon and President Bill Clinton. But that's a baldfaced lie. Section F, quietly devised by Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., stipulates that unless the president surrenders executive privilege -- a power even the Supreme Court has ruled is vital to his office -- he and his lawyers will be denied any ability to call or question witnesses.
House Democrats are behaving like thugs, twisting arms to get what the Constitution does not entitle them to demand.
The Judiciary Committee's Section F was triggered on Monday, when four White House officials refused to show up for Schiff's grilling because Trump and the Justice Department instructed them to stay away. It is the president's right to do that to protect executive privilege. Schiff immediately called these four officials "first-hand witnesses to serious misconduct." That's typically Schiff -- rushing to judgment without hearing any evidence. Expect more of that when the hearings go public in mid-November.
Pelosi defended the House decision to drag out their investigation of the president with formal public hearings, saying "if we don't have a system of checks and balances, we might as well all just elect a president and go home." With all due respect, Madam Speaker, impeachment was never intended to be a part of the routine checks and balances between Congress and the executive. That's what the president's veto power and Congress' override are for. Impeachment was reserved for those rare moments when a president actually may have committed "high crimes and misdemeanors."
It's tragic to see Democrats turning impeachment into a tool to discredit a president merely because he belongs to a different party or they find him objectionable. Allow it to happen once and it could happen again and again, giving the party that controls the House the power to undo presidential elections routinely.
Most presidents facing reelection would be doomed by the rigged House spectacle about to begin. But Trump sees that he can overcome the impact of these televised hearings by going directly to the public himself. He said he's tempted to hold a "fireside chat" with the American people and read the transcript of his controversial July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president.
Trump's medium is television, and no one is better. New York Times author James Poniewozik, who is no Trump fan, argues in a recent book that Trump doesn't just appear on television; he owes his rise to television.
Compared with Trump, Schiff and his star witnesses are not very telegenic. Typical are demoted Ukrainian Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, acting Ukrainian Ambassador William Taylor and State Department careerist George Kent. These bureaucrats, reeking of self-importance, are convinced that they know more about foreign policy than the president. They're dripping with disdain for him and the people who elected him.
Meanwhile, Trump shows how to maximize television audiences. In a mere nine-minute Oval Office speech defending the needs for border security, he pulled in a whopping 43 million viewers, ratings that Trump-haters like sleazebag lawyer Michael Cohen and former FBI Director James Comey couldn't touch.
Will Trump win the ratings war against the House Democrats and their witnesses? With a Senate conviction and removal from office highly unlikely, because real evidence of wrongdoing is lacking, the only goal of House impeachment is to damage the president and make him unelectable in 2020. Democrats shouldn't count on that. They'll easily win a vote to impeach Trump, but they're likely to lose where it really counts: in the court of public opinion.
I remember being taught about our government’s checks and balances. Where are the checks and balances on Nasty Pelosi and Schiff for brains???
Here’s the problem, in the Clinton years Americans were against impeachment because the media supported him. Now the MSM is running lies 24/7 about impeachment and sadly ignorant people in this country believe the media. I thought for sure this would backfire on them, but we can’t discount the power of these evil people and their influence over our society. The question——what can we do about it? Answer-—I have no idea. But their propaganda IS a problem and destroying this country.
“It’s tragic to see Democrats turning impeachment into a tool to discredit a president merely because he belongs to a different party or they find him objectionable.”
That is NOT why they are doing this.
L
BACKSTORY Ukraine entered into the “Treaty Between the United States of America and Ukraine on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters,” negotiated then- by President William Clinton and ratified by the U.S. Senate in 2000. The US chief law enforcement officer requested that Ukraine assist our AG in investigating possible criminal activity in 2014 through 2016.
Pres Trump is being impeached for following US law initiated by then-Pres Clinton.
Americans demand to know why this is being withheld from the American people?
Perhaps the loquacious Clintons went radio silent b/c do not want their activities with Ukraine exposed?
<><> A 2015 WSJ report includes a chart of “foreign donors” to the Clinton Foundation showing “Ukraine” as a top donor among a list of large donors including “foreign individuals and their foundations and companies” while Clinton was secretary of state from Jan. 21, 2009 to Feb. 1, 2013.
<><> Victor Pinchuk, a former Ukrainian parliamentarian and businessman whose father-in-law is a former president of Ukraine is a connected Ukrainian who served two terms as an elected member of the Ukrainian Parliament and is a proponent of closer ties between Ukraine and the European Union.is a connected Ukrainian who served two terms as an elected member of the Ukrainian Parliament and is a proponent of closer ties between Ukraine and the European Union.”
<><> The Clinton Foundation publicly reports, and its foundation spokesman confirmed, that other foreign entities have given more than the Pinchuk Foundation (which is listed as having given between $10 million and $25 million).
<><> Between 2009 and 2013, including when Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation based in Kiev, Ukraine, the Journal reported.
<><> In 2008, “Mr. Pinchuk made a five-year, $29 million commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative (a wing of the foundation that coordinates charitable projects) “to train future Ukrainian leaders and professionals to modernize Ukraine,” according to the Clinton Foundation.
<><> Several alumni of the Clinton program are current members of the Ukrainian Parliament.
<><> Ukranian Pinchuk was especially generous-—not only blanketing the Clinton Foundation with money, he hired Hillary for a $300,00 speech to help him boost Ukraine’s creds; even Chelsea got into the act.
<><> CIRCA 2013——Ukranian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk hires Hillary to give a speech at a Ukraine forum discussing regime change, exiting Russia....and hitting up the US for more foreign aid.
Schiff acts like he’s a judge running a Grand Jury......but there’s a monumental distinction:....
a grand jury is a criminal proceeding. Impeachment is a political process in which
the House gathers evidence to define the meaning of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Schiff wants it both ways:
<><> Run secret committees hearings like a criminal Grand Jury......
<><> then impeach Mr. Trump of political offenses even if the President committed no crime.
IOW, Schiff’s already made up his mind....Trump is guilty of something........so let’s nail him.
Schiff was challenged on his committee’s unheard of secrecy and his response on Sunday talk TV was frightening:
“we want to make sure that we meet the needs of the investigation (and the hell with Pres Trump’s Constitutional right to be heard).
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS NEED TO CHECK THIS OUT ASAP:
TALKING POINTS----State laws usually govern “fraudulent practices:”
<><> making it a third-degree felony to “knowingly and willfully make or use any false document,
<><> while knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry.
It is entirely possible Schiff violated Caifornia state laws including the state's election code.
According to California's Penal Code 470 PC:
Forgery is the act of doing any of the following with intent to commit a fraud:
<><>Signing someone else's name;
<><> Faking an official seal;
<><> Faking someone else's handwriting;
<><> Changing or falsifying a legal document;
<><> Faking, altering or presenting as genuine a false document.
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ACTION NOW
Judicial Watch
425 3rd Street, SW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20024
TELE 1-888-593-8442 between 8:30am and 5:30pm EST.
Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
WH EMAIL CONTACT PAGE https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
US CONGRESS SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121
U.S. Department of Justice
Comment Line: 202-353-1555
Switchboard: 202-514-2000
Republican Senate Committee
425 2nd St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20002
Phone: (202) 675-6000
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS NEED TO CHECK THIS OUT ASAP:
TALKING POINTS----State laws usually govern “fraudulent practices:”
<><> making it a third-degree felony to “knowingly and willfully make or use any false document,
<><> while knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry.
It is entirely possible Schiff violated Caifornia state laws including the state's election code.
According to California's Penal Code 470 PC:
Forgery is the act of doing any of the following with intent to commit a fraud:
<><>Signing someone else's name;
<><> Faking an official seal;
<><> Faking someone else's handwriting;
<><> Changing or falsifying a legal document;
<><> Faking, altering or presenting as genuine a false document.
=======================================
ACTION NOW
Judicial Watch
425 3rd Street, SW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20024
TELE 1-888-593-8442 between 8:30am and 5:30pm EST.
Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
WH EMAIL CONTACT PAGE https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
US CONGRESS SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121
U.S. Department of Justice
Comment Line: 202-353-1555
Switchboard: 202-514-2000
Republican Senate Committee
425 2nd St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20002
Phone: (202) 675-6000
Schiff is currently in his 10th term as a congressman, representing California’s 28th congressional district since 2013, having served since 2001.
The district, numbered as the 27th from 2001 to 2003 and as the 29th from 2003 and 2013, has been centered in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles, including Pasadena, Glendale and his hometown of Burbank.
For his first six terms, he represented a district included the areas of Alhambra, Altadena, San Gabriel, Burbank, Glendale, South Pasadena, Temple City, Monterey Park and Pasadena.
In 2010, his district’s boundaries were re-drawn to include, among others, La Cañada Flintridge and La Crescenta-Montrose as well as large slices of Los Angeles itself including Sunland-Tujunga, Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, West Hollywood, Echo Park, Silver Lake and Los Feliz.
What is the reason(s) in your learned opinion?
A corrupt government is catastrophic, the wavering GOP makes it reality.
If Trump doesn’t string ‘em all up, they’ll be back with a vengeance.
Challenge everything in court.
Better yet, send US Marshals in and drag off Pelosi, Nadler, Schiff, et al., to Fort Leavenworth.
This is to coverup the Pelosi’s and other democrats taking bribes from Ukraine. Trump only worry is the backstabbing rinos.
“What is the reason(s) in your learned opinion?”
1.) The American voter had the temerity to elect him in the first place instead of PIAPS. They must be taught a lesson so that it never happens again.
2.) To discourage any other Trump like figures who may emerge at some point in the future. That also must never happen again. They must fear what would happen to their family and friends if they were to do it.
3.) To cover up the mind boggling amounts of corruption engaged in by powerful members of BOTH parties. This Ukraine thing is a razor sharp dagger pointed straight at the heart of the Dems and the Deep State. And they know it.
4.) To finally once and for all destroy the last few shreds of our Constitutional Republic.
Hope that helps.
L
Rule .308
Impeachable offense: Whenever an election demonstrates the fake polling is wrong. Next step for Pelosi house is to revoke citizenship for deplorables.
Those are all valid reasons. Thanks.
I think I would also add the need to deflect attention away from the potential coming criminal indictments of those inside the intelligence agencies involved in conspiracy to take down Trump that Barr and Durham and Horowitz are working on. All of them democRATS.
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