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NOONAN: Trump’s Defenders Have No Defense
WSJ ^ | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 11/22/2019 6:56:21 AM PST by conservative98

Look, the case has been made. Almost everything in the impeachment hearings this week fleshed out and backed up the charge that President Trump muscled Ukraine for political gain. The pending question is what precisely the House and its Democratic majority will decide to include in the articles of impeachment, what statutes or standards they will assert the president violated.

What was said consistently undermined Mr. Trump’s case, but more deadly was what has never been said. In the two months since Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry was under way and the two weeks since the Intelligence Committee’s public hearings began, no one, even in the White House, has said anything like, “He wouldn’t do that!” or “That would be so unlike him.” His best friends know he would do it and it’s exactly like him.

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KEYWORDS: fakenews; nevertrumpers; pasthersellbydate; peggynoonan; peggystoogenan; trump
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To: conservative98

She was so happy to write that headline That was what she started with I would guess. Months ago.

People say ‘this thing (whatever the accusation or scientific global warming theory of the leftist moment may be) this thing could have happened and in my opinion it did, so that’s the view everyone should and must have or I’ll have a temper fit.”

That’s the world in which they exist. Former Reagan speechwriter or not.

Insanity.


41 posted on 11/22/2019 7:08:28 AM PST by stanne
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To: goodnesswins

Well, looks like you have to subscribe to read the article from this skank.

Here’s another writer, who at one time I enjoyed. She was usually on the money.

I guess it started with her mockery of Sarah Palin....but there’s been no doubt, she’s been a boisterous Never Trumper from the get go...

And for good reason. To be otherwise, would result in her getting Dershowitzed from her social cocktail party DC society.

I’m sorry, Peg...Trump is a fighter. Unlike the people you hang with, the milk toast, pinky in the air repubs, Trump avenges the wrongs done to him and our country.

In short, Miss Peggy, Trump is our George Washington, our Andrew Jackson, our Stonewall Jackson, our Teddy Roosevelt and Patton....and yes maybe he’s our Jesus.

Oh, and one last thing....you’re GD right his friends and foes will agree with this.

THIS ARTICLE TELLS ME IMPEACHEMTN WILL HAPPEN, BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE THIS GAL OUT THERE, PUSHING THE DEMS TO DO IT.

I say bring it on!!!


42 posted on 11/22/2019 7:08:34 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: CodeToad

Schiffty sees himself as the star in his own screen *play. He is Hitler-level insane.

*heard that is what dweeb did/does for a living.


43 posted on 11/22/2019 7:08:40 AM PST by madison10
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To: conservative98

Isn’t she the writer who did Kamala Harris one better, vis-à-vis sleeping her way to fame and fortune, or am I confusing her with someone else?


44 posted on 11/22/2019 7:10:08 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: conservative98

The Deep State rests...


45 posted on 11/22/2019 7:10:24 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: conservative98

Wait. Peggy Noonan is not dead?


46 posted on 11/22/2019 7:10:43 AM PST by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: Batman11

Just from the neck up.


47 posted on 11/22/2019 7:11:02 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ought-six
Isn’t she the writer who did Kamala Harris one better, vis-à-vis sleeping her way to fame and fortune, or am I confusing her with someone else?

She rode Reagan's coattails to fame and fortune.

48 posted on 11/22/2019 7:11:11 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: MNJohnnie
The Never Trumper on the US House Committee, )the guy from TX who is a person foe of Trump) osaid the Dems have no case

Well, yes, they have no case IN THE SENSE that Trump didn't do anything wrong.

Making the last ditch in this matter "no quid pro quo" is the same error as making Nixon's last ditch "he didn't know about it".

Once you choose the last ditch, you have to defend it 100%.

A US President putting pressure on foreign leaders is normal behavior. No foreign leader has the rights and privileges of a US citizen. All normal diplomatic behavior could be characterized as extortion, bribery, or other nefarious activities if they were carried out in the domestic sphere against US citizens.

The correct defense for Trump is NOT "no quid pro quo". Of course Trump wanted something from Ukraine, and of course the expectation of Ukraine getting something in return was implicit in the phone call, or else, why do it?

The correct defense was that this was normal Presidential behavior, that he was well within his rights to do it, that the State Department, the NSC, the CIA, and the press do. not make US foreign policy, the President does, "you're goddam right I ordered the Code Red", and impeach me if you dare.

49 posted on 11/22/2019 7:11:49 AM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: conservative98
"...the charge that President Trump muscled Ukraine for political gain."

Noonan is using the wrong word in muscled to explain that word in a normal conversation between two heads of state that past presidents from around the world have done...think of Obama and his talks with the Russian President, the President of Kenya...think back at FDR and what he must have said to Stalin or Churchill....Presidents talk to all heads of state and others however, never in my wildest dreams would I have believed their "private" conversations where shared by so many.

Pelosi is practicing sedition...and dragging the remnants of the Democrat Party with her. Pelosi is wrong.

50 posted on 11/22/2019 7:12:15 AM PST by yoe
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To: conservative98

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!


51 posted on 11/22/2019 7:12:18 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: conservative98

Hard to imagine how supposedly learned people can think so foolishly.


52 posted on 11/22/2019 7:12:19 AM PST by Chengdu54
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To: conservative98

Pissy Matthews refers to her as “his favorite Republican” - what does that say about her?


53 posted on 11/22/2019 7:13:07 AM PST by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: conservative98

Peggy Noonan is still butt-hurt that her boy Jeb Bush did not become the Republican Presidential Candidate in 2016.

Peggy, it is past time that you get over it.


54 posted on 11/22/2019 7:13:15 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: ClearCase_guy
Everyone knows Trump is guilty, you see. No one can deny it any more. Tons of evidence. Tons of it.

The only thing that matters is, are there 20 GOP Senators who believe it, or who are willing to say they do?

55 posted on 11/22/2019 7:13:23 AM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: conservative98

Peg’s panties dried up when Obummer left.


56 posted on 11/22/2019 7:13:35 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Epstein proves it's all a charade.)
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To: conservative98

Noonan is a Trump-hater establishment Republican. She’s been bashing Trump all year, and Trump has been returning the favor. No love lost.


57 posted on 11/22/2019 7:13:58 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: madison10

“He is Hitler-level insane.”

Very true. He has a complex of himself as puppet master. Problem for him may be that he is connected to this criminal enterprise and may also be the subject of indictments.


58 posted on 11/22/2019 7:14:12 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Facing one’s own irrelevance is never easy.


59 posted on 11/22/2019 7:14:19 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Menehune56

The Belle of East Rutherford NJ lives in her own universe.


60 posted on 11/22/2019 7:15:53 AM PST by xkaydet65
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