The anti-Trump
“Resistance”
started in the
Obama CIA, FBI
and Department
of Justice, acting
as partisan politicians,
rather than neutral
public servants,
desperately trying
to dig up dirt
on then candidate
Donald Trump.
And failing.
Later, the Senate
confirmation process
for Supreme Court
justice Brett Kavanaugh
was also a disgrace.
As I have written
many times before,
truth is not
a leftist value
-- that's why leftists
get so much negative
attention at this blog.
I'm no Trump fan.
I strongly objected
to Trump's corporate
tax cuts, with a detailed
analysis, published
in my newsletter
ECONOMIC LOGIC.
I have criticized
unprecedented
deficit spending
( for this stage of
the business cycle )
under Trump,
his exaggerations,
his bragging,
and his generally
rough personality,
but I'm also not
a Trump hater.
The Trump haters
viciously attack him
when he does
something wrong,
but also manage
to attack him
when he does
something right,
like getting the
ISIS leader
to kill himself !
Never before did
an American
political party
lose the election,
and then immediately
start a new "campaign"
to block the winner's
accomplishments,
investigate him,
and impeach him.
The always angry Democrats
treat Trump as if he's
an illegitimate president !
The "Resistance"
has caused the public
to lose trust in the FBI,
CIA, and Department
of Justice.
The Resistance
fabricated Trump’s
collusion with Russia.
The Democrat's smarmy
"Christopher Steele Dossier"
was a summary of fictional
"dirt" on Trump, and his
campaign aides, paid for
by Hillary Clinton.
It was used by the FBI
to justify launching a
counterintelligence
investigation into the
Trump campaign.
It was the first
counterintelligence
investigation into
a political campaign,
in American history.
The Obama FBI used
counterintelligence
capabilities to target
a political campaign,
with no evidence
of any crime ...
and there's still
no evidence
of any crime,
three years later !
“Trump derangement
syndrome" is motivated
by a desire to take back
political power, using
whatever means
necessary.
The Democrat House
inquiry into Ukraine
is based on Trump's
phone call with the
Ukraine president.
It's the latest attempt
to remove President
Trump from office.
Testimony takes place
behind closed doors,
and Democrats refuse
to release transcripts
from the depositions
of former and current
State Department
employees.
Democrats then
leak to the press,
most likely
using misleading
cherry picked
quotes taken
out of context,.
Or completely
false "leaks".
And then the
leftist-biased
mainstream
media
will publish
whatever
they are told.
Impeachment was
meant by the founders
to be reserved for
unusual circumstances.
For Watergate,
there were
hundreds of hours
of testimony
broadcast over TV.
The public had been
convinced by that real
uncensored testimony.
And then Richard Nixon
knew he had to go.
Now we have
Democrats saying
'This is really bad',
and Republicans saying,
‘There's no crime here',
about the same
secret testimony.
In the 2016
presidential
campaign,
government
bureaucrats
overwhelmingly
contributed to
Hillary Clinton.
95% of bureaucrats’
donations went to Clinton,
according to The Hill’s
analysis of donations
from federal workers,
up until September 2016.
97%, at the Obama
Department of Justice.
99%, at the Obama
State Department.
The Senate Committee
on Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs,
reported that in Trump’s
first 126 days in office,
his administration
“faced 125 leaked stories
—one leak a day—
containing information
that is potentially
damaging to
national security,
under the standards
laid out in a 2009
Executive Order
signed by President
Barack Obama.”
95% of the U.S.
mainstream media
is actively engaged
in partisan "warfare"
against Trump.
There are no longer
"journalistic standards".
There are so many
attacks on Trump,
that the attackers
end up contradicting
each other:
-- Trump is
either too dumb
to be president, or
-- Trump is a dictator,
consolidating power
around himself, or
-- Trump is the
most sophisticated
"Manchurian candidate"
in history, secretly
directed by Putin.
These false claims
make Democrats
appear to be fools.
Robert Mueller’s
spent $32 million,
for the biased
process of using
ONLY Democrats,
to investigate
ONLY Republicans.
2,800 subpoenas
issued over two years,
and 500 search warrants
exercised, yet
there was nothing
to pin on Mr. Trump.
Well, they did come up
with the un-American
claim that Trump was
guilty of something, until
he proved his innocence.
The Russian troll farm,
called the Internet
Research Agency,
spent money on
lame Facebook ads,
most placed after
the 2016 election
-- they'll never be
tried in a U.S. court.
The hacking of
Hillary Clinton’s
emails by “Russia”,
was alleged
only by a company
the DNC hired, and
NO ONE ELSE,
not even the Obama
FBI, was allowed
to examine DNC
computers and
servers.
Paul Manafort,
was convicted
on tax evasion
of money earned
in Ukraine in 2014
- what does that
have to do with
Trump in 2016 ?
George Papadopoulos
and Michael Flynn
were "guilty" of
mis-remembering
details of their past,
-- not about any crimes --
just like anyone would do,
when their memory
is matched against
the FBI's actual transcripts
from their phone calls.
that had been "intercepted".
General Flynn also faced
prosecutorial misconduct,
including "revised"
FBI interview notes,
revised to make
Flynn look bad
-- he should be
pardoned by
President Trump.
The Democrats
have exhibited
bad faith, dishonesty,
incompetence, and
unjustified malice
toward Trump.
That's why
Attorney General
Bill Barr's study
of RussiaGate’s origins
was recently upgraded to
a criminal investigation.
The left-biased
New York Times
is already
denouncing Barr.
And a huge report
from the DOJ
Inspector General
is nearing release.
There is a an
unprecedented
Democrat effort
to identify an
impeachable
offense committed
by President Trump.
The Mueller Team
investigation
ruled out collusion
with Russia, and
obstruction of justice.
The latest charge
is a "quid pro quo"
with Ukraine, and
obstruction of
Congress.
If you want to know
what a "quid pro quo"
is, then view this
short 2018 video,
where Joe Biden
brags about
his quid pro quo
with the Ukraine
president in 2016:
The Democrat goal
is to impeach and
remove Trump,
regardless of
whether or not
he did anything
illegal.
Democrats are like
prosecutors who
target the defendant
first, and then search
for a any crime
to charge him with !
The Soviet Union
secret police,
under Stalin,
did that !
The search for an
impeachable crime
with no evidence
that any crime
has been committed,
is unprecedented
in U.S. history.
The U.S.
constitution
says that an
impeachable crime
is limited to treason,
bribery or other
high crimes and
misdemeanors.
"High crimes
and misdemeanors"
means an actual
violation of a
criminal statute.
Impeachment for
"maladministration"
was debated and
explicitly rejected
by the framers
at the constitutional
convention.
James Madison,
who was the father
of our Constitution,
did not want any
president to be subject
to the political will
of Congress.
"Maladministration"
would be an imprecise
impeachment criteria.
Using it could turn
our constitutionally
limited republic,
into a parliamentary
democracy.
Where a prime minister
can be removed
by a no confidence vote
... by a 51% majority
of the legislators.
Congress does not
have the authority
to change the
impeachment criteria
without a constitutional
amendment.
Members of Congress
take an oath to apply
the Constitution,
not to ignore it's
specific criteria.
Congresswoman
Maxine Waters
placed herself
above the law,
when she said:
"Impeachment is about
whatever the Congress
says it is. There is no law
that dictates impeachment.
What the Constitution
says is 'high crimes and
misdemeanors,'
and we define that."
Did President Trump
commit impeachable
offenses when he spoke
on the phone to the
president of Ukraine ?
Or when he
directed Executive
Branch members
to refuse to cooperate
with congressional
Democrats,
in secret testimony,
with no court order
forcing their compliance ?
The answer
to both charges
is "no".
Even a
quid pro quo,
exchange of
foreign aid for
a political favor,
is NOT a crime,
or impeachable
offense.
President Barack Obama
misused his power
to take personal revenge
against Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu,
In the last days
of his second term,
Obama engineered
a one-sided UN
Security Council
resolution declaring
that Israel's control
over the Western Wall
-- Judaism's holiest site --
constitutes a
"flagrant violation
of international law."
Nearly every member
of Congress opposed
this unilateral change
in our policy, but
it happened because
Obama hated Netanyahu.
President George
H. W. Bush pardoned
Caspar Weinberger
and others,
just before their trials,
to prevent them
from pointing
their fingers at him.
In fact, Congress may not
compel the Executive Branch
to cooperate with an
impeachment investigation,
without a court order.
Legislative Branch
and Executive Branch
conflicts are resolved
by the Judicial Branch.
There has been
no impeachable
offense.
Since Donald Trump
has been under
constant investigation
for longer than
any other president
in U.S. history,
and no crime
has been found,
I'd say that no real
impeachable offense
will ever be found.
On the other hand,
House Democrats
are in the majority,
so they can impeach
President Trump
if they don't like
how he combs
his hair !
The Senate
should refuse
to hold a trial,
in the absence of
any impeachable
offense.
Bypassing a trial
will only require
50 Republican votes,
plus the one extra vote
of Vice President Pence.
There will be
no conviction
in the Senate,
where Republicans
are in control,
because Trump can
"win", even if 19
Republicans vote
FOR his conviction
( plus every Democrat ).
So Donald Trump
will remain
as our president,
probably for the
next five years !
The right way
to decide who
should be president,
is called an election.
The Democrats
might want
to learn that.
Democrats
have now spent
over three years
making themselves
look like angry,
horrible people,
willing to lie
whenever that
might help them
get what they want.
The next election
is in one year.
Democrats
seem to be
doing everything
they can do,
to be unlikeable.
And guarantee
that one of them
will NOT be
the next president.
