The House Dems setting themselves in the position to impeach
President Trump out of Leftist hate rather than any identifiable crimes is
indeed a great danger to the American Republic. Justin Smith elucidates below.
JRH 12/15/19
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The Greatest Danger
The Democratic Party's Illegitimate Use of Impeachment
By Justin O. Smith
Last update sent 12/14/2019 12:01 AM
Last update sent 12/14/2019 12:01 AM
The House Judiciary Committee, led by the majority
Democratic Party, voted 23 to 17 along party lines to impeach President
Donald J. Trump on Friday December 13th 2019, and the Democratic Party is
moving full steam ahead with its lies and the weaponized impeachment process,
that is an extremely flagrant, unacceptable and odious act, ignoring
the truth. This exercise in evil, based on a deep hatred for the President
and for America, is so devoid of sense and prudence that it would embarrass all
the kangaroos ever assembled in the courts of legend, since it issues two
articles of impeachment, two articles of fiction, that charge "abuse of
power" and "contempt of Congress".
These charges are dubious at best, as they project the Democratic Party's own
offenses, and even have many members of the greater Democrat caucus in the
House nervous over staking their political futures on a vote for this
idiocy.
On December 10th, Representative Lee Zeldin (R-NY) exclaimed, "With this
disgusting impeachment charade, House Democrats have proven themselves guilty
of Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress."
According to the New York Times, as of December 13th, one
hundred and fifty-five of 235 House Democrats have expressed their support for
the impeachment of President Trump. [Blog Editor: My brief efforts could not
locate Justin’s NYT data, but NYT data on Impeachment Inquiry dated 10/10/19 has 227 Dems supporting
Impeachment. BUT that was long before the GOP confronted
Schiff, Nadler & Pelosi with facts vs hearsay.] Twelve representatives
are still undecided or unclear on their decision, and sixty-six have not
responded yet. One, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ), appears to be a solid
"No".
However, a point made by Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell in November still holds true going into 2020, when he told reporters, "It is
inconceivable to me that (the Senate vote) would be 67 votes to remove the
president from office."
During the airing of Meet the Press on December 8th,
that highlights the hypocrisy and double-standards utilized by Democrats, host
Chuck Todd noted that 21 years ago, as the impeachment of President Bill
Clinton unfolded, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler [is quoted
to have] stated: "Impeaching a president, when you have not got a
broad consensus of the American people, a broad agreement of almost everybody
that this fellow has to go, because he's a clear and present danger to our
liberty and to our Constitution, without that, you cannot and should not
impeach a president. Because to do so is to call into question the legitimacy
of all our political institutions." Obviously, Nadler has departed a great
distance from his former beliefs, as he invents new standards for impeachment.
On December 9th, former Independent Counsel Ken Starr, of
Watergate fame, told Tucker Carlson at Fox News:
"Impeachment should be the last resort and now it’s just a political
tool."
Since the 2016 elections, misusing the impeachment process,
these Democratic Party traitors to America, such as Maxine Waters, Steve Cohen,
Jim Cooper and Al Green, have attempted to impeach President Trump over
everything imaginable, from his tax returns and the Emoluments Clause to
Russian collusion, Ukrainian quid pro quo and on to obstruction of justice,
obstruction of Congress and bribery. They have wasted weeks in formal
impeachment proceedings that more closely resembled a Lefortovo Soviet style sham, where they
unilaterally declared that President Trump's intent was to harm Joe Biden's bid
for the Democratic Party presidential nomination; however, the facts do clearly
exhibit, President Trump was actually more focused on seeing the Democrats'
real corruption and criminal acts, pertaining to kickback payments from Ukraine
to Hunter Biden exposed and investigated.
[Blog Editor: Dem corruption pooh-poohed and/or ignored
by Dem propaganda machine Mainstream Media:
o Report: Top Democrats Colluded with Ukrainians to Interfere
with 2016 Election; By Matt
Margolis; PJ Media;
4/7/19
o Ukrainian Officials Having Trouble Getting the DOJ's
Attention on Ukrainian-Democrat 2016 Collusion Efforts;
By Debra
Heine; PJ Media;
4/8/19
o Let's get real: Democrats were first to enlist Ukraine in US
elections; By John Solomon; The Hill;
9/23/19 6:30 PM EDT
o Forgotten Collusion Story: DNC, Clinton Campaign Sought
Ukraine’s Help to Sink Trump; By R. Cort Kirkwood; The New American; 9/28/19
o Timeline of Alleged Ukrainian-Democrat Meddling in 2016 Presidential
Election; By Sharyl Attkisson; The Epoch Times; 11/25/19 – UPDATED
12/11/19]
On December 5th, during an interview at the Women's Leadership Summit, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked, "Was there an 'aha' moment for you personally, a piece of evidence or testimony that swayed you now to take this step (forward with the rapid impeachment of President Trump)?” Pelosi answered this and two follow-up questions, with the following: "... all I hear from the press is that I move so swiftly that it's like a blur going by. This has been a couple of years -- two and a half -- since the initial investigation of the Russian involvement in America's election, which started much of this and led to other things. ... So all along, I have said for two years, this is an impeachment ... We don't take any glee in this at all. It is heartbreaking."
So how could all of the current impeachment talk really be
about Ukraine and an innocent phone call, when Ukraine wasn't on the agenda two
years ago, especially when all parties concerned, including Chairman Jerrold
Nadler have admitted there wasn't any quid pro quo? Even if there had been a
quid pro quo, it wouldn't have constituted an abuse of power, since
America has never just handed foreign nations money without any expectations.
And as far as President Trump's instructions to White House staff not to
honor Congressional subpoenas, rather than an "obstruction of
Congress", this is simply a classic struggle and an exertion of rights
between co-equal branches of government; most certainly President Trump cannot
allow a rogue House to trample, thwart and usurp the White House.
"We don't take any glee in this at all" ...? Like
hell they don't.
A few days after Pelosi's revelation, House Judiciary
Committee ranking member Doug Collins suggested America should look at the
Articles of Impeachment. He observed that the term
"abuse of power" is so ambiguous and so vague" that it's hard to
even define, and they use its ambiguity to make it mean whatever they want it
to mean. And Alan Dershowitz, a civil libertarian professor of law at Harvard
University and a Democrat opponent of President Trump, essentially agrees with
that assessment in his December 10th article, as he
noted that abuse of power and obstruction of Congress are not mentioned in the
Constitution and neither one is a high crime and misdemeanor. Dershowitz
focused on Alexander Hamilton's position that "vague criteria would allow
a majority of the House to impeach a president from the opposing party just
because they had more votes than the president's party", which Hamilton
called 'the greatest danger".
The Democrats are abusing their power and weaponizing
impeachment, dividing the nation, because if the early hearings had utilized
due process addressing the issue and the President's alleged wrongdoing, the
entire process would have already ended, since President Trump has absolutely
done nothing wrong. The Democrats simply fear the coming 2020 elections and
they wish to be able to repeat over and over the words "impeach, impeach
... President Trump was impeached" in hopes of smearing him enough to make
a difference.
From November to the present, President Trump has exuded a
"bring it on" attitude, stating "Frankly, I want a trial."
Only one attempt to impeach the president was seen in the
first 184 years of our nation's existence, and in the last 45 years our nation
has witnessed three, with President Trump well on his way to be the third U.S.
President in American history to be impeached, before the Christmas holidays,
although it is highly unlikely that the Senate will also vote to remove
President Trump, as the sham proceedings head into next year. The larger
question will be whether or not the issue even gets more than 50 votes to
remove President Trump, since some Democrats, such as Senator Joe Manchin of
West Virginia, and all the Republicans, with the possible exceptions of
Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney, will vote against removing President
Trump. [Blog Editor: As in RINO alert!]
A trial in the senate would be quite a circus and it would
reveal the Democrats for the real fools they are each and every day. It would
reveal that Eric Ciaramella is a rogue CIA agent,
not a "whistleblower", aiding and abetting the implementation of a
seditious conspiracy, who should be forced to testify along with his co-conspirator Michael Atkinson --
Intel Community Inspector General -- and former assistant attorney general John Carlin, one of the
perpetrators of the "Crossfire Hurricane" prelude to RussiaGate. And
it would also be most interesting to hear from Gina Haspel, the current CIA
Director, in order to discover just what she might know of Ciaramella's role if this entire
sordid, so far as to who were his associates in this treasonous affair.
And every cogent thinking, logical freedom loving American
would certainly want to hear testimony from Representative Adam
"Shifty" Schiff -- UNDER OATH -- who engineered Ciaramella's entrance
into this Ukrainian imbroglio and sequel to the Russiagate hoax. Schiff will
certainly stay true to his immoral character and lie about his involvement and
his actions, and any such perjury regarding such a serious matter before all
America should result in his expulsion from Congress in disgrace. Bring in all
the bad actors with pertinent knowledge on the allegations and the plot against
the President, from crack-cocaine smoking Hunter Biden to Lt Colonel Vindman,
U.S. Army, U.S. National Security Council Director for European Affairs and a de facto Ukrainian agent, and on
to Daniel Goldman, the attorney and
director for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and compel
them all to testify under penalty of perjury.
Each time I hear Nadler and Pelosi, or any other
Democrat, attempt to equate their treasonous impeachment tactic to
"service to our duty to the Constitution and our country", a
white-flash passes through my eyes, bile fills my mouth and hot anger courses
through my blood. In the end, the Democratic Party has provided all
freedom and liberty loving Americans with more than ample reason to never vote
for any Democrat ever again, as we join hands to right our country and renew
and restore our Constitutional Republic.
This marks the first time in U.S. history that an
impeachment has proceeded to a vote of the full House, without any clear
criminal act and on the slimmest of "evidence" of any wrongdoing. Not
only is this the most un-American act I have witnessed in my lifetime, it is a
gross violation of the rule of law and the Constitution by Democratic Party
petty tyrants, who have illegitimately changed the rules, manipulated our
Supreme Law, and used any means at hand, both legal and illegal, in their numerous
attempts to fully attain their endgame of ousting President Trump. And in the
process, these traitors have subverted the will of the people and the U.S.
Constitution, stopping at nothing in the pursuit of power, and created a
Constitutional crisis that strikes at the heart of America's society and Her
Republic, deepening and widening our political divides and pushing America
closer to a point of no return.
[Blog Editor: And I add: The actions the Dem Party is an
open example of the Founding Fathers’ fear of the tyranny of the majority and the reason
for the existence of the Electoral College in the election of POTUS.]
By Justin O. Smith
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