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"Schiff Says the House Has ‘Proven Our Case’: Impeachment Update"


Steven T. Dennis and Laura Litvan

3 FEBRUARY 2020

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump is set to be acquitted of two impeachment charges in final votes set for Wednesday at 4 p.m.

Senators heard lawyers’ closing arguments Monday and now have two days for discussion on the chamber’s floor.


Here are the latest developments:

Schiff Says the House Has ‘Proven Our Case’ (3:07 p.m.)

Lead House manager Adam Schiff completed final arguments in the trial by calling Trump “a man without character or ethical compass” and calling on the Senate to remove him from office.

“We have proven our case,” Schiff said, adding that the Constitution’s framers “gave you a remedy and they meant for you to use it.”

“We have proven Donald Trump guilty, now do impartial justice and convict him,” Schiff said.

“The alternative is a runaway presidency and a nation whose elections are open to the highest bidder,” the California Democrat said.

“History will not be kind to Donald Trump,” Schiff said.

“If you find that the House has proved its case and still vote to acquit, your name will be tied to him with a cord of steel and for all of history.”

What has changed over the years is that members of Congress are no longer willing to take on a president of their own party, he said.

The lawmaker appealed for at least one Republican to show courage to find Trump guilty.

“He has not changed."

"He will not change,” Schiff said.

“The plot goes on, the scheming persists, and the danger will never recede.”

GOP Advises Trump to Avoid Trial in Speech (2:28 p.m.)

Trump is getting some advice from Republican senators ahead of his State of the Union address: don’t mention impeachment.

“If I was him, I would avoid that subject,” said Senator Roy Blunt, a member of Senate GOP leadership and a close adviser to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

“I think there’s plenty to talk about, and it’s an opportunity to move on.”

“I just think there’s no way you talk about that and that not be the takeaway,” said Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican.

“He has a lot of positive things to talk about.”

But Republican senators also acknowledged that it’s impossible to predict what the president will say and difficult to constrain his impulse to take on his opponents.

“The other option is to address it head-on, and he often is a head-on kind of guy,” Blunt said.

“He’s going to do whatever he wants to do,” said Senator Kevin Cramer, a freshman Republican from North Dakota.

“I wouldn’t do it because I’m more of a traditional political strategist and I couldn’t deliver it."

"He, on the other hand, is very successful being himself.”

Trump Team Urges Senate to Acquit President (1:03 p.m.)


White House Counsel Pat Cipollone began the Trump team’s closing argument by urging senators to “acquit the president and leave it to the voters to choose their president” in November’s election.

“The only conclusion, based on the evidence and based on the articles of impeachment themselves and the Constitution, is that you must vote to acquit the president,“ Cipollone said.

“The American people are tired of the endless investigations and false investigations that have been coming out of the House,” Cipollone said.

Trump has achieved success with the economy and wants to continue doing so, he said.

Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow said, “The answer is elections, not impeachment.”

The first article, alleging Trump abused his power, is invalid because presidents can’t be impeached over policy differences, Sekulow said.

The second article, accusing the president of obstructing the House investigation, is also invalid, he said, adding, “President Trump in no way obstructed Congress.”

Deputy White House Counsel Michael Purpura said, “The president did not condition security assistance or a meeting on anything during the July 25 call.”

Schiff Says Trump a Danger to U.S. Democracy (12:15 p.m.)

Lead House manager Adam Schiff argued that “a president free of accountability is a danger to the beating heart of our democracy.”

“Donald Trump has betrayed his oath to protect and defend the Constitution, but it is not too late for us to honor ours, to wield our power to defend our democracy,” Schiff said.

“Today we urge you, in the face of overwhelming evidence of the president’s guilt, and knowing that if left in office he will continue to seek foreign interference in the next election, to vote to convict on both articles of impeachment, and to remove from office, Donald J. Trump, the 45th president of the United States,” Schiff said.

Impeachment manager Hakeem Jeffries asked senators to think about how U.S. allies in Europe and adversaries around the world would view the Senate’s decision to acquit Trump.

He said one of the main actors in the impeachment allegations, Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, “returned to the scene of the crime” in Ukraine to continue digging up dirt about Joe Biden.

“What message do we send when we say America’s national security is for sale?” Jeffries said.

House Managers Urge Senate to Remove Trump (11:30 a.m.)

House managers argued that Trump sought to use his official power to cheat in the 2020 election, urging senators to remove him from office for withholding U.S. aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rival.

“Your duty demands that you convict President Trump,” Colorado Democrat Jason Crow told the Senate Monday.

While impeachment is intended only for “rare instances of grave misconduct,” if left unchecked, Trump “threatens the fairness of the next election and risks putting foreign interference between Americans and their ballots,” Crow said.

“The president would have us believe that he did not withhold aid to force these sham investigations” of Democrat Joe Biden, Crow said.

“How many falsehoods can we take?"

"When will it be one too many?”

Florida Democrat Val Demings said Trump was the “central player in the corrupt scheme, assisted principally by his private attorney, Rudy Giuliani.”

“He remains unapologetic, unrestrained and intent on continuing his sham to defraud our elections,” Demings said.

Both Sides to Present Closing Arguments (11:04 a.m.)

The impeachment trial convened to hear closing arguments, with the House managers and Trump’s defense each getting two hours.

After that, the Senate floor will be open for members to explain which way they plan to vote.

The final decision is scheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday, when the Senate’s Republican majority will have the votes to acquit Trump.

Senate to Hear Final Arguments on Charges (6 a.m.)

The Senate will hear four hours of closing arguments starting at 11 a.m. Monday on the charges against Trump.

Plans for the president’s final acquittal on Wednesday were sealed after Friday’s 51-49 vote blocking the Senate from calling witnesses sought by Democrats, including former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

The House managers and Trump’s defense team will each have two hours to make their arguments, and senators -- including the Democrats running in Monday night’s Iowa caucuses -- are required to be in the chamber.

Afterward, members will have until the scheduled vote time at 4 p.m. Wednesday to explain their votes on the Senate floor, though the other senators won’t have to be there to listen to them.

The timing means Trump’s acquittal will come after his State of the Union address to a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday night.

He’ll be able to claim victory, but it won’t have happened yet.

--With assistance from Daniel Flatley.

To contact the reporters on this story: Steven T. Dennis in Washington at sdennis17@bloomberg.net;Laura Litvan in Washington at llitvan@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Joe Sobczyk at jsobczyk@bloomberg.net, Laurie Asséo, Anna Edgerton

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR February 1, 2020 at 7:48 pm

Paul Plante says :

And here I would like to say as an American citizen who is neither a Republican nor a Democrat that I think it was a very serious blunder on the part of the Senate Republicans to try and end this FARCE without calling as witnesses each and every person who could corroborate the statement of PROSECUTING ATTORNEY Adam Schiff in his U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report which is, in essence, the actual indictment of Trump by Schiff acting in the capacity of a GRAND JURY FOREMAN, where Schiff ascribes to Trump the following motive for his alleged actions in Ukraine, to wit:

The President demanded that the newly-elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, publicly announce investigations into a political rival that he apparently FEARED THE MOST, former Vice President Joe Biden, and into a discredited theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

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Now, this is not the wild ravings of some lunatic in an asylum somewhere, people – this is a LEGAL DOCUMENT that was used as the basis to waste a whole lot of government resources by the Democrats in the House of Representatives to protect Joe Biden and a blatant and transparent effort to influence the 2020 presidential election in the favor of the Democrats, by smearing Trump, which reminds me quite frankly of President George Washington in his Farewell Address warning of a moment when “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

That is what Adam Schiff is representative of – the modern-day epitome of the cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men and women trying to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, and it is for that reason that I think it was a bad idea to stop this FARCE without forcing Adam Schiff to have to admit, publicly, that his statement that Trump “FEARED” Joe Biden was nothing but BULL**** invented by Schiff as a motive for Trump’s dealing with Ukraine, when he had nothing else plausible to hang his hat on.

EXPOSE that as a willful false statement by demanding Schiff back it up with proof!

Otherwise, this FARCE will never come to an end – it is like the Armistice with Germany after WWI, which only caused another war.

By not popping the balloon full of bull**** that is Adam Schiff, the Republicans are leaving a wound festering, as we clearly see in the New York Times article “Republicans Block Impeachment Witnesses, Clearing Path for Trump Acquittal” by Michael D. Shear and Nicholas Fandos on 1 February 2020, as follows:

As they approached the final stage of the third presidential impeachment proceeding in United States history, Democrats condemned the witness vote and said it would render Mr. Trump’s trial illegitimate and his acquittal meaningless.

“America will remember this day, unfortunately, where the Senate did not live up to its responsibilities, when the Senate turned away from truth and went along with a sham trial,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader.

“If the president is acquitted, with no witnesses, no documents, the acquittal will have no value because Americans will know that this trial was not a real trial.”

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The ONLY way to shut Charley “Chuck” Schumer up to heal the divided nation was to call for witnesses who don’t exist to corroborate the charge of the smarmy and unctuous Disneyland Democrat Adam Schiff that Trump’s sole motive for his actions with respect to Ukraine was FEAR of Joe Biden.

That would have been a show I would love to see, Adam Schiff parading in witness after witness, including the dude whose job it is to keep the presidential toilet clean, to testify that they knew Trump feared Joe Biden because they overheard him telling somebody else that, or in the case of Jack Bolton, anyway, Trump confessed his fear of Joe Biden to their face.

Schiff tried to make Trump look small, so it would only have been fair, and conclusive, to show that Schiff is even smaller, by revealing to ALL the American people, and especially the Democrats, that Adam Schiff and the Democrats were the ones who rigged this trial, which takes us back to the NYT for this burst or rush of horse**** from out of the mouth of the smarmy and unctuous Adam Schiff, as follows:

“The facts will come — out in all of their horror, they will come out,” Mr. Schiff said.

“The witnesses the president is concealing will tell their stories,” he added.

“And we will be asked why we didn’t want to hear that information when we had the chance.”

“What answer shall we give if we do not pursue the truth now?”

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The answer I will give you, Adam, is you are the one concealing the truth, because if we all go back to your “Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report,” where we have the real truth about witnesses, as follows, and this in Adam’s own words as author of the report, we already had plenty of witnesses, to wit:

The report is the culmination of an investigation that began in September 2019 and intensified over the past three months as new revelations and evidence of the President’s misconduct towards Ukraine emerged.

Sustained by the tireless work of more than three dozen dedicated staff across the three Committees, we issued dozens of subpoenas for documents and testimony and took more than 100 hours of deposition testimony from 17 witnesses.

To provide the American people the opportunity to learn and evaluate the facts themselves, the Intelligence Committee held seven public hearings with 12 witnesses — including three requested by the Republican Minority — that totaled more than 30 hours.

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To provide We, the American People the opportunity to learn the facts supporting impeachment before the Articles of Impeachment were even drafted, which is some time in the past, now, pre-impeachment trial where we are now being told that the Republicans in the Senate are denying the House Democrats the witnesses they already called to craft this BOGUS set of Articles of Impeachment that are based on Trump fearing Joe Biden, which is patently ridiculous, Adam Schiff issued dozens of subpoenas for documents and testimony and took more than 100 hours of deposition testimony from 17 witnesses, and then held seven public hearings with 12 witnesses — including three requested by the Republican Minority — that totaled more than 30 hours, and resulted in nothing but a waste of time and government resources.

So what exactly is it that Charley “Chuck” Schumer and the smarmy and unctuous Adam Schiff now think we are missing in this sick saga?

The Democrats rigged a trial against Trump in the hopes of influencing the 2020 presidential election in their favor by smearing Trump endlessly, and now, the circus is over their HOUSE OF CARDS is coming tumbling down!

The only thing now left to do is to clean house in the House of Representatives, ridding it of the cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men like Adam Schiff and women like Nancy Pelosi of the Democrat party who have blatantly attempted to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying our Republic in the process.

Get out the House, Adam Schiff, and you too, Nancy Pelosi, time for the pair of you to go, and good riddance to the both of you!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR February 4, 2020 at 7:09 pm

Paul Plante says :

In an interesting development which certainly has political tongues wagging up here to the north of you in the Democrat-controlled capital city of Albany, New York, as of the time of this writing (1:15 p.m. 4 Feb), there still has been no announced results from the Iowa caucuses, and the fear (Charley “Chuck” Schumer is a New York Democrat) is that barmy Bernie Sanders trounced Joe Biden in the graveyard of Joe’s prior campaigns for president (think plagiarization), which result would totally strip the smarmy and unctuous Adam Schiff of the only motive he could come up with to make Trump’s actions personal, not official, and that was Trump’s alleged “FEAR” of goofy old Joe, as we clearly see from the following:

U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report


The impeachment inquiry into Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, uncovered a months-long effort by President Trump to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election.

As described in this executive summary and the report that follows, President Trump’s scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential reelection campaign.

The President demanded that the newly-elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, publicly announce investigations into a political rival that he apparently feared the most, former Vice President Joe Biden, and into a discredited theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

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Now, as we have become painfully well aware of since the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in January of 2019, and promptly announced to the world that they were going to impeach the “MOTHER******” Trump come hell or high water, they would find a reason, don’t worry, Adam Schiff is anything but subtle, and he thinks we are deaf and stupid, so in case we missed the part about Trump being afraid of Joe Biden, which is sheer invention on the part of Adam Schiff, who pulled that specious assertion from straight out of his ***, as I have gone through the record and can find NO witness testimony that Trump was afraid of Joe Biden, as opposed to being contemptuous of Joe, as a lot of Americans are, for him being so stupid in the run-up to the Iraq war and the stupidity in Washington, thanks to Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, that has resulted in the mess Trump inherited over there thanks to the incompetence of Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, he came back and reminded us of it, all over again, just in case we didn’t remember, to wit:

As this report details, the impeachment inquiry has found that President Trump, personally and acting through agents within and outside of the U.S. government, solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, to benefit his reelection.

In furtherance of this scheme, President Trump conditioned official acts on a public announcement by the new Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, of politically-motivated investigations, including one into President Trump’s domestic political opponent.

In pressuring President Zelensky to carry out his demand, President Trump withheld a White House meeting desperately sought by the Ukrainian President, and critical U.S. military assistance to fight Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine.

The President engaged in this course of conduct for the benefit of his own presidential reelection, to harm the election prospects of a political rival, and to influence our nation’s upcoming presidential election to his advantage.

In doing so, the President placed his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States, sought to undermine the integrity of the U.S. presidential election process, and endangered U.S. national security.

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Now, excuse me here, people, but I am over 70, I am a veteran of the Viet Nam war, I know I have been lied to by Democrats before, although it took getting wounded in combat twice to come to the realization that I had been duped by Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson into thinking the Viet Cong in Viet Nam were in some incomprehensible-to-me reason dangers to our national security, so that before they got to here, it was necessary for us to go over there and rough them up a bit to teach them what-for, so that statement by the smarmy and unctuous Adam Schiff, who does seem to possess a smallish neck, although it could be the camera angle that makes his neck look small, that Trump “endangered U.S. national security” is pure BULL****!

Our national security no more depends on that corrupt ****hole than it does on the Man-in-the-Moon, and I truly would like to hear Adam Schiff try to persuade me that it is otherwise, and again, I have read his reports, and nowhere does or can Adam Schiff detail how Ukraine is in any way vital to OUR national security here in the United States of America, when they can’t even defend their own people and territory.

Getting back to Trump allegedly fearing Joe Biden, who may be on his way out of the Democrat primaries because he wasn’t doing well in Iowa, here is more of the narrative from Schiff, to wit:

Our investigation determined that this telephone call was neither the start nor the end of President Trump’s efforts to bend U.S. foreign policy for his personal gain.

Rather, it was a dramatic crescendo within a months-long campaign driven by President Trump in which senior U.S. officials, including the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Acting Chief of Staff, the Secretary of Energy, and others were either knowledgeable of or active participants in an effort to extract from a foreign nation the personal political benefits sought by the President.

Ultimately, this sweeping effort to stonewall the House of Representatives’ “sole Power of Impeachment” under the Constitution failed because witnesses courageously came forward and testified in response to lawful process.

The report that follows was only possible because of their sense of duty and devotion to their country and its Constitution.

Given the proximate threat of further presidential attempts to solicit foreign interference in our next election, we cannot wait to make a referral until our efforts to obtain additional testimony and documents wind their way through the courts.

The evidence of the President’s misconduct is overwhelming, and so too is the evidence of his obstruction of Congress.

Indeed, it would be hard to imagine a stronger or more complete case of obstruction than that demonstrated by the President since the inquiry began.

The decision to move forward with an impeachment inquiry is not one we took lightly.

In making the decision to move forward, we were struck by the fact that the President’s misconduct was not an isolated occurrence, nor was it the product of a naïve president.

Having witnessed the degree to which interference by a foreign power in 2016 harmed our democracy, President Trump cannot credibly claim ignorance to its pernicious effects.

Even more pointedly, the President’s July call with Ukrainian President Zelensky, in which he solicited an investigation to damage his most feared 2020 opponent, came the day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified to Congress about Russia’s efforts to damage his 2016 opponent and his urgent warning of the dangers of further foreign interference in the next election.

With this backdrop, the solicitation of new foreign intervention was the act of a president unbound, not one chastened by experience.

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Ah, yes, there we are back to the central theme of this on-going Democrat passion play/circus/theater of the absurd: “he (Trump) solicited an investigation to damage his most feared 2020 opponent …”

Say it enough times and what do you know, eventually, if said over and over enough times, it has to become true, doesn’t it, as in:

I. The President Conditioned a White House Meeting and Military Aid to Ukraine on a Public Announcement of Investigations Beneficial to his Reelection Campaign

The President’s Request for a Political Favor


President Trump then asked President Zelensky “to look into” former Vice President Biden’s role in encouraging Ukraine to remove a prosecutor widely viewed by the United States and numerous European partners to be corrupt.

In so doing, President Trump gave currency to a baseless allegation that Vice President Biden wanted to remove the corrupt prosecutor because he was investigating Burisma, a company on whose board the Vice President’s son sat at the time.

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Now, right there, people, we are seeing a BLATANT COVER-UP by the smarmy and unctuous Hollywood, California Democrat congressman Adam Schiff where he blurts out “President Trump gave currency to a baseless allegation that Vice President Biden wanted to remove the corrupt prosecutor because he was investigating Burisma, a company on whose board the Vice President’s son sat at the time,” because there is no evidence the charge is baseless, precisely because the charge has never been investigated, and Joe has never adequately explained what that was all about, nor has he ever been formally exonerated, so the charge is not baseless at all, and isn’t investigated because the Democrats are keeping the HUSH on that to protect Joe Biden, which takes us back to Trump being afraid of Joe Biden one more time, to wit:

Far from giving the “full-throated endorsement of the Ukraine reform agenda” that had been hoped for, the President instead demanded a political investigation into an American — the presidential candidate he evidently feared most, Joe Biden.

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See what I am saying, people – Trump had to be petrified scared of Joe Biden, because if he wasn’t, Adam Schiff wouldn’t be saying it over and over again, which brings us to this absolute gem in Adam’s report, to wit:

The President’s Hand-picked Agents Begin the Scheme

In comments that would foreshadow troubling events to come, Lt. Col. Vindman warned President Zelensky to stay out of U.S. domestic politics to avoid jeopardizing the bipartisan support Ukraine enjoyed in Congress.

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What stirring drama, people, as could be expected because this is the work product we are seeing here of some of the most creative minds among the Hollywood scriptwriters backing Adam Schiff along with the illusionists at Disneyland, where Adam is their congressman.

And now we pause for station identification and a word from our sponsors as we await the fate of goofy Joe Biden in Iowa, where the dude might end up back of the pack and pulling up lame, the moral of that story being Trump should have had the Ukrainian dude investigating Bernie Sanders, instead, because Trump was obviously afraid of the wrong candidate.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR February 5, 2020 at 12:04 am

Paul Plante says:

So, people, why is Ukraine really important to our national security here in the United States of America?

According to CHIEF PROSECUTING ATTORNEY Adam Schiff in his U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report which is, in essence, the actual indictment of Trump by Schiff acting in the capacity of a GRAND JURY FOREMAN, the reason Ukraine is so important to our national security here in the United States of America can be found in the section “President Trump Froze Vital Military Assistance,” as follows:

Ukraine experts at DOD, the State Department, and the NSC argued that it was in the national security interest of the United States to continue to support Ukraine.

As Mr. Morrison testified, “The United States aids Ukraine and her people so that they can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here.”

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And as a Viet Nam combat veteran who heard that same exact BULL**** about why we had to fight the Vietnamese in Viet Nam, all I can say is that the mountain of BULL**** from Washington, D.C. just got a whole lot higher with that wild and extravagant claim, and by the way, I have been hearing that HOG**** about the Russians coming here to invade us since I was about five years old or so, and really, people, after some fifty years or more of the Russians not coming here to fight us, because they would get their clock cleaned if they tried, that claim is getting real old, and so its inclusion in this Adam Schiff Impeachment Circus is worthy of nothing but universal contempt for the claim, and for Adam Schiff who thinks we are all stupid enough to believe that if the Ukrainians do not stop the Russians, the next thing we know, they will be over here.

What fools those clowns are in Washington if they honestly think the corrupt Ukrainians can stop the Russians from invading the United States, regardless of how much military aid we provided them with.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR February 5, 2020 at 7:43 pm

Paul Plante says :

And before we look further into the existential question of just who the hell is this idiot Tim Morrison who said to the smarmy and unctuous CHIEF DEMOCRAT INQUISITOR AND PROSECUTING ATTORNEY Adam Schiff, the Democrat congressman from Disneyland and Hollywood, California, impeaching Trump on national security grounds, that “(T)he United States aids Ukraine and her people so that they can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here,” it has to be kept in mind that each and every Democrat that voted for impeachment on national security grounds, and this includes such illustrious military combat veterans as Cape Charles Congresswoman Elaine Luria and Tulsi Gabbard, has their basis for asserting a danger to our national security that asinine and patently ridiculous statement by Tim Morrison that “(T)he United States aids Ukraine and her people so that they can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here,” which makes them all look quite stupid, given we are not at war with Russia, we haven’t been at war with Russia, there are no indications we intend to go to war with Russia, and Bill and Hillary Clinton are great friends with Putin of Russia.

How absolutely ridiculous the Morrison statement really is can be readily determined by reviewing the April 21, 2019 Cape Charles Mirror thread entitled “Op-Ed: Adam Schiff and the Russian Connection” http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... onnection/ where we learned from the 12 October 2018 RT News article entitled “California among top 10 investors in Russian debt thanks to cops & firefighters” by Max Whittake of Reuters, to wit:

It takes more than sanctions to scare California’s police and firefighters from investing in Russia.

The US state is reported to be a top 10 holder of Russia’s state-issued bonds.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or Calpers, had about $460 million invested in Russian OFZ bonds as of the end of June, Bloomberg reports.

Other US investors like BlackRock and Stone Harbor Investment Partners remain among the top 10 holders of Russian bonds, according to the media.

BlackRock is the largest foreign holder of Russian OFZs with $2.53 billion invested.

Analysts have said that huge investments by US pension funds is a sign that they oppose rhetoric from the White House.

Investing in Russian bonds has been lucrative in the last years.

The central bank of Russia is offering a yield from 7 to 9 percent depending on the maturity of the bonds.

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So much for being at war with Russia, and that thread doesn’t stop there, because according to the RT News story “Sanctioned Russian assets attracting investment from biggest US pension funds” by Sergey Pyatakov / Sputnik published 22 Oct. 2018, the second largest pension fund in the US, California State Teachers’ Retirement System, or Calstrs, held about $9.5 million in Russian bonds and nearly $164 million in Lukoil receipts as of the end of 2017, according to media reports.

Meanwhile, the country’s fourth biggest fund Florida Retirement Systems (FRS) held Russian investments worth $354 million as of June 30 that year.

The holdings reportedly include shares of Novatek, Rosneft, VTB, Sberbank, Gazprom, Gazprom-neft, Lukoil, Surgutneftegas and Transneft.

At the same time, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, the third largest in the country, reportedly has $82.7 million worth of Russian investments in its portfolio – $59.3 million of which are companies on the sanctions list.

Investing in Russian state-issued obligations has been highly profitable over the last decade.

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So who then is this seeming lunatic Tim Morrison who is the smarmy and unctuous Adam Schiff’s key witness in his impeachment of Trump on national security grounds?

According to his Wikipedia bio, Timothy Aaron Morrison, born c. 1978, is an American Republican political adviser who was briefly the top U.S. adviser to President Trump on Russia and Europe on the White House National Security Council, a position he took over from his predecessor Fiona Hill in August 2019, and from which he resigned on October 31, 2019.

Before that, Tim served as senior director for countering weapons of mass destruction on the US National Security Council, a position he assumed on July 9, 2018.

Until then, he was policy director for the Republican staff on the House defense panel.

Tim entered politics as a professional staff member to Rep. Mark Kennedy, from 2000 to 2007.

As to his national security credentials, Tim doesn’t seem to really have any, which is likely why we find him uttering such lame, tired, and patently stupid lines as “(T)he United States aids Ukraine and her people so that they can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here.”

Instead, Tim holds a Juris Doctor from George Washington University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, which possession of a J.D. degree by Tim serves as an explanation for why it is that he does make real lame and stupid statements for Adam Schiff to then parrot, such as “(T)he United States aids Ukraine and her people so that they can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here,” because Tim does not really know better, nor does Adam Schiff or the Democrats, for that matter, given that they have impeached Trump on national security grounds with Tim Morrison as their only source of support for that specious contention.

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"Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman Will Be Transferred From the White House"


Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker

7 FEBRUARY 2020

The White House plans to transfer Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, whose testimony in the House impeachment hearings infuriated President Trump and his allies, out of the National Security Council staff as early as Friday, two senior administration officials said.

Mr. Trump essentially confirmed the move in brief comments with reporters before leaving on a day trip to North Carolina.

“I’m not happy with him,” the president said of Colonel Vindman.

His senior officials, he added, would inform the colonel of his future soon.

“They’ll make that decision.”

It was not immediately clear where he would next be sent within the Defense Department, one administration official said, but Colonel Vindman is on active duty in the military.

The action comes just days after Mr. Trump was acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial that turned in part on the testimony of Colonel Vindman and other administration officials who described a campaign to pressure Ukraine into announcing corruption investigations into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democrats.

Mr. Trump made clear as recently as Thursday his personal antipathy for Colonel Vindman, who oversaw American policy toward Ukraine on the National Security Council staff and whose twin brother, Yevgeny Vindman, works as a lawyer for the N.S.C.

“Lieutenant Colonel Vindman and his twin brother, right?” the president said at one point during a rambling hourlong venting session at the White House.

“We had some people that — really amazing.”

The decision to move Colonel Vindman out of the White House complex, reported previously by Bloomberg News and The Washington Post, comes as Mr. Trump and his allies have made clear that they will seek to exact payback against those he blames for triggering his impeachment and trial.

During his White House event, Mr. Trump denounced the “evil” and “corrupt” people who investigated him, and his spokeswoman went on television to declare that anyone who hurt the president “should pay for” it.

Colonel Vindman has not heard from the White House but has realized that he might not be able to continue serving in his current post and has consulted with Army officials about other options, according to a person briefed on his plans.

As an active duty officer, he would normally return to military service, but it was not immediately clear what his next assignment would be.

As of a few weeks ago, Colonel Vindman was still doing his day-to-day job of coordinating Ukraine policy with career officials at other agencies, but had been largely cut off from political appointees and had not yet met the new national security adviser, Robert C. O’Brien, who has been in the job since September, according to the person briefed on the plans.

His associates did not take that as a good sign.

Colonel Vindman, a Ukrainian immigrant and decorated Iraq war veteran, told the House Intelligence Committee that he was surprised when he heard Mr. Trump pressure President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate Mr. Biden and a conspiracy theory involving Democrats and the 2016 election during a July 25 telephone call.

He told lawmakers that he reported his concerns to other N.S.C. officials.

Republicans questioning his motivations during the hearing pointed to the fact that Ukrainian officials sounded him out about becoming the country’s defense minister, a suggestion he said he rejected and reported to his superiors.

Even before the hearing, Colonel Vindman was subjected to virulent attacks on his patriotism on Fox News and social media that caused concern for his personal safety.

Mr. Trump called him a “Never Trumper,” a term the colonel rejected.

Fox aired a segment in which commentators noted that Colonel Vindman was an immigrant “working inside the White House, apparently against the president’s interest,” suggesting that might amount to “espionage.”

Colonel Vindman made Mr. Trump and his allies even angrier when he wore his uniform at the televised hearing and made comments that seemed more political than the other witnesses.

Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, called the colonel “a low level partisan bureaucrat and nothing more.”

The attacks resumed during the Senate trial last month.

“Adam Schiff is hailing Alexander Vindman as an American patriot,” Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, wrote on Twitter during the trial, referring to the lead House manager prosecuting the case.

“How patriotic is it to bad-mouth and ridicule our great nation in front of Russia, America’s greatest enemy?”

She posted another message a few hours later quoting a former commander about Colonel Vindman: “Do not let the uniform fool you."

"He is a political activist in uniform.”

Mr. Trump retweeted the post.

Colonel Vindman’s lawyer fired back at what he called the senator’s “slander” and “cowardice,” saying his client would continue to “serve our country dutifully and with honor.”

With impeachment over, Mr. Trump is debating whether to make additional changes in the White House staff.

Some of his advisers are encouraging him to part ways with his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney; those advisers have pointed fingers at Mr. Mulvaney for his role in the freeze of the security aid to Ukraine that paved the way for the impeachment inquiry in the House.

Mr. Mulvaney was ordered to freeze the aid by Mr. Trump, according to several administration officials.

Other advisers are telling Mr. Trump that he should wait to make major changes until after the election.

Some advisers hope that Representative Mark Meadows, Republican from North Carolina, who is retiring, will join the White House as a senior adviser, though not as chief of staff.

Mr. Meadows was traveling with Mr. Trump on Air Force to North Carolina on Friday.

Maggie Haberman reported from New York and Peter Baker from Washington. Danny Hakim contributed reporting from New York.

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THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

"‘Appalling’: Hillary Clinton rips Trump over likely ouster of Alexander Vindman"

Madison Dibble

7 FEBRUARY 2020

Several military members chided Vindman for showing up to testify in his Army uniform.

Others were upset when he corrected Rep. Devin Nunes and demanded that he be called “Lt. Col. Vindman” rather than “Mr. Vindman.”


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THE MOST CHARITABLE THING THAT CAN BE SAID FOR LT. COL. VINDMAN IS THAT HE MUST BE AS DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS AND AS STUPID AS ALL GET-OUT IF HE THOUGHT HE COULD PLAY AT PARTISAN POLITICS WITH ADAM SCHIFF WHILE IN UNIFORM AND ON ACTIVE DUTY WITH TRUMP AS HIS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN ORDER TO EMBARASS TRUMP POLITICALLY TO INFLUENCE THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN THE FAVOR OF THE DEMOCRATS WITHOUT ANY REPERCUSSIONS TO HIS CAREER AS A MILITARY OFFICER COMMISSIONED BY THE PRESIDENT ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Gordon Sondland and Alexander Vindman in Post-Acquittal Purge"


Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, Danny Hakim and Michael S. Schmidt

8 FEBRUARY 2020

WASHINGTON — President Trump wasted little time on Friday opening a campaign of retribution against those he blames for his impeachment, firing two of the most prominent witnesses in the House inquiry against him barely 48 hours after being acquitted by the Senate.

Emboldened by his victory and determined to strike back, Mr. Trump ordered Gordon D. Sondland, the founder of a hotel chain who donated $1 million to the president’s inaugural committee, recalled from his post as the ambassador to the European Union on the same day that Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, a decorated Iraq war veteran on the National Security Council staff, was marched out of the White House by security guards.

The ousters of Mr. Sondland and Colonel Vindman — along with Mr. Vindman’s brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, an Army officer who also worked on the National Security Council staff — may only presage a broader effort to even accounts with the president’s perceived enemies.

In the two days since his acquittal in the Senate, Mr. Trump has railed about those who stood against him, calling them “evil,” “corrupt” and “crooked,” while his press secretary declared that those who hurt the president “should pay for” it.

Even as he began purging administration officials who testified in the House impeachment inquiry, Mr. Trump assailed a Democratic senator who he had hoped would side with him during the trial but did not and called on the House to “expunge” his impeachment because he deems it illegitimate.

The flurry of actions and outbursts drew quick condemnation from Democrats, who said the president was demonstrating that he feels unleashed, and complicated the politics of impeachment for moderate Republicans who stood by him while arguing that he had learned his lessons and would be more restrained in the future.

“There is no question in the mind of any American why this man’s job is over, why this country now has one less soldier serving it at the White House,” David Pressman, Colonel Vindman’s lawyer, said in a statement.

“Lt. Col. Vindman was asked to leave for telling the truth."

"His honor, his commitment to right, frightened the powerful.”

Colonel Vindman spoke publicly only once, after being ordered to under subpoena, Mr. Pressman added.

“And for that, the most powerful man in the world — buoyed by the silent, the pliable and the complicit — has decided to exact revenge.”

Mr. Sondland took a more measured approach, confirming that he had been dismissed without offering any protest.

“I was advised today that the president intends to recall me effective immediately as United States ambassador to the European Union,” he said in a statement hours after Colonel Vindman’s dismissal.

“I am grateful to President Trump for having given me the opportunity to serve, to Secretary Pompeo for his consistent support and to the exceptional and dedicated professionals at the U.S. Mission to the European Union.”

Mr. Sondland and Colonel Vindman were two of the most crucial witnesses in the House impeachment hearings.

Mr. Sondland, who was deeply involved in the effort to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations into Mr. Trump’s Democratic rivals, testified that “we followed the president’s orders” and that “everyone was in the loop.”

Colonel Vindman testified that he brought concerns about Mr. Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president to National Security Council officials.

The White House made no effort to portray the ousters as anything other than a response to the impeachment battle now that it has ended.

Mr. Trump foreshadowed Colonel Vindman’s fate hours ahead of time.

“Well, I’m not happy with him,” the president said.

“You think I’m supposed to be happy with him?"

"I’m not.”

The president continued to assail lawmakers who voted for conviction, targeting Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, who bitterly disappointed Mr. Trump by sticking with his party.

“I was told by many that Manchin was just a puppet for Schumer & Pelosi,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter, referring to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“That’s all he is!”

Even as Mr. Trump flew to North Carolina to highlight his economic record, he called on the House to “expunge” his impeachment, an idea with no precedent or basis in the Constitution.

“They should because it was a hoax,” he told reporters.

“It was a total political hoax.”

And he accused Ms. Pelosi of committing a crime by ripping up a copy of his State of the Union address.

“She broke the law,” he asserted.

The president’s critics had warned that he would feel unbound if acquitted, and some said that the dismissal of Mr. Sondland and the Vindman brothers proved their point, quickly calling it “the Friday night massacre,” as Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, put it.

“These are the actions of a man who believes he is above the law,” said Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the lead House impeachment manager.

Mr. Schumer said the White House was running from the truth.

“This action is not a sign of strength,” he said.

“It only shows President Trump’s weakness.”

Ms. Pelosi said, “This goes too far.”

At the Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. asked the audience to stand in support of Colonel Vindman.

The White House would not discuss the Vindman decision.

“We do not comment on personnel matters,” said John Ullyot, a spokesman for the National Security Council.

Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, celebrated the dismissals, offering mock thanks to Mr. Schiff for investigating his father.

“Were it not for his crack investigation skills, @realDonaldTrump might have had a tougher time unearthing who all needed to be fired,” he tweeted.

“The president had every right to make the moves that he did today,” Representative Lee Zeldin, Republican of New York, said in an interview.

“Moving Lt. Col. Vindman, for example, is a good move based on the fact that there is a lack of trust."

"He disagrees with the president’s policies.”

As for Mr. Sondland, “the president can recall an ambassador at any time with or without cause, and in the case of Gordon Sondland, the guy was a hot mess, anyway.”

Other impeachment witnesses have left with less drama in recent weeks.

Marie L. Yovanovitch, the ambassador to Ukraine who was recalled from her post last spring because she was seen as an obstacle to the president’s plans, retired last month from the Foreign Service.

William B. Taylor Jr., who replaced her in an acting capacity, was essentially brought back early, as well.

And Jennifer Williams, a career official detailed to Vice President Mike Pence’s office, quietly left recently to return to the Defense Department.

Several had already left the government, like Fiona Hill, the Europe policy chief at the National Security Council, and Kurt D. Volker, the special envoy for Ukraine, who resigned days before testifying.

But others, so far, remain at their posts, including George P. Kent at the State Department, Laura Cooper at the Defense Department and David Holmes at the embassy in Ukraine.

Mr. Sondland began discussions with senior officials about leaving his post shortly after he testified in November, according to two people briefed on the matter.

He believed that remaining as ambassador would be untenable given his role in impeachment and hoped to exit gracefully, they said.


A decision on when to step down was put off until after impeachment, but on Friday, State Department officials told Mr. Sondland that they wanted him to resign, the people said.

Mr. Sondland relayed to them that he would not step down amid what was clearly a purge of impeachment witnesses and that he would have to be fired, the people said.

In response, State Department officials recalled him.

Colonel Vindman’s brother seemed to be collateral damage.

Yevgeny Vindman, who goes by Eugene, worked as a lawyer for the National Security Council and had no role in the impeachment hearings other than showing up to sit behind his brother when he appeared in November.

He was given no explanation for his dismissal “despite over two decades of loyal service to this country,” said Mr. Pressman, the lawyer.

“He deeply regrets that he will not be able to continue his service at the White House.”

Both Vindmans, whose tours at the White House were scheduled to last until July, will retain their Army ranks and return to military service.

Alexander Vindman, who had been expecting the move and had begun removing personal items, was told he would go to the Pentagon before moving to the National War College in July as originally planned.

Yevgeny Vindman was more surprised and was told he would report to the office of the Army general counsel.

Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said service members who return to the military would be welcomed back.

“We protect all of our persons, service members, from retribution or anything like that,” he told reporters.

Mr. Trump, on the other hand, has made clear his personal antipathy for both Vindmans.

“Lieutenant Colonel Vindman and his twin brother, right?” the president said on Thursday during a rambling hourlong venting session at the White House, his voice dripping with disdain.

“We had some people that — really amazing.”

On Friday morning, Mr. Trump retweeted a message from a supporter advocating Alexander Vindman’s dismissal: “Vindman’s behavior is a scandal."

"He should be removed from the @RealDonaldTrump White House ASAP to protect our foreign policy from his machinations.”

Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican who voted to acquit the president but expressed hope that he would learn a lesson from the impeachment, said that witnesses should not be punished.

“I obviously am not in favor of any kind of retribution against anyone who came forward with evidence,” she said in Maine, according to The Portland Press Herald.

Colonel Vindman has been subjected to virulent attacks on his patriotism on Fox News and social media.

The president called him a “Never Trumper,” a term the colonel rejected.

Fox aired a segment suggesting his service in the White House might amount to “espionage.”

And Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, attacked him on Twitter: “How patriotic is it to badmouth and ridicule our great nation in front of Russia, America’s greatest enemy?”

With impeachment over, Mr. Trump is debating additional personnel changes.

Some advisers are encouraging him to part ways with his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, who was involved in freezing security aid to Ukraine, which paved the way for impeachment.

Other advisers are telling Mr. Trump that he should wait to make major changes until after the election in November.

Some advisers hope that Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina, will join the White House as a senior adviser.

Mr. Meadows traveled with the president on Friday to North Carolina.

Mr. Trump denied that Mr. Mulvaney would be pushed out in favor of Mr. Meadows.

“I have a great relationship with Mick,” the president told reporters on Friday.

“I have a great relationship with Mark."

"And it’s false.”

Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt reported from Washington, and Maggie Haberman and Danny Hakim from New York. Lola Fadulu contributed reporting from Charlotte, N.C.

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Paul Plante says :

And GOOD GOD GERTIE, is this mental torture by Adam Schiff, “Jumping Jerry” Nadler, aka, “The Nads,” and Nancy Pelosi ever going to come to an end?

And here I am referring to the press conference “Jumping Jerry” held yesterday (5 Feb. 2020) outside the Democrat caucus room where he announced even more Trump impeachment hearings, with this current impeachment only being at best the penultimate impeachment, or warm-up impeachment before the main round, which is the next impeachment yet to come, which takes us to an article in THE HILL entitled “Nadler says it’s ‘likely’ House will subpoena Bolton” by Cristina Marcos on 02/05/20, as follows:

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that it is “likely” that the House will issue a subpoena to President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton.

“I think it’s likely, yes,” Nadler told reporters.

“We’ll want to call Bolton.”

Nadler elaborated that Democrats would continue their investigations even after the Senate’s expected vote later Wednesday to acquit Trump on the two articles of impeachment passed by the House.

Nadler defended pursuing further investigations into the White House in an election year.

“First of all, I think when you have a lawless president, you have to bring that to the fore and you have to spotlight that.”

“You have to protect the Constitution, whatever the political consequences.”

“Second of all, no, as more and more lawlessness comes out, I presume the public will understand that,” Nadler told reporters outside a Democratic caucus meeting.

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MEMO TO “JUMPING JERRY”: We are the public in here, and let us face it, Congressman Nadler, what we do understand, all too well by now, is that you Democrats are full of ****, and all you are doing with these hearings is trying our patience as well as wasting our time and government resources as we watch our national deficit rising ever higher as you Democrats throw out tax dollars away on your STUPID impeachment investigations which have gone nowhere.

Getting back to The Hill:

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the Democratic caucus chairman and one of the seven impeachment managers, said that subpoenaing Bolton would be a “question for further discussion” that would be decided by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).

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Ah, yes, people, NOTHING gets done by the Democrats without the express permission of Nancy Pelosi, and of course, Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Disneyland), who truly did not come across as being very intelligent himself as this IMPEACHMENT FARCE of his fizzled in the Senate and died an ignominious death, as it deserved to do, which takes us back to The Hill, to wit:

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) suggested on Wednesday that there is value in hearing from Bolton, even after the Senate impeachment trial has ended.

But he deferred the decision to the committee leaders, like Nadler, who have been examining Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

“I don’t think they’re going to be precluded by any vote of the Senate on that,” Hoyer told reporters in the Capitol.

“But the committees will make that decision.”

Hoyer acknowledged that there are some moderate Democrats facing tough reelections who are ready to put the whole saga behind them and turn their focus to legislation.

But, he predicted voters will understand if Democrats frame the ongoing investigation as routine oversight, rather than a second stab at impeachment.

“The committees … will be making a determination whether that information is useful to get for their oversight responsibilities, not necessarily for the impeachment process, but for … closing the book, finding out the information,” he said.

“I think that they may well do that, but they’re going to make that decision.”

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And so, the stupid show will go on, and on and on, so get your popcorn now, people, while there is an intermission, and we’ll be right back after this break for station identification.

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Paul Plante says :

So, yes, people, let us all rise up as one body, regardless of political affiliation, and demand that the THREE AMIGOS, as Adam Schiff, “Jumping Jerry” Nadler and Nancy Pelosi are lovingly known all across this great land of ours, revered as they are by all the American people as the SAVIORS of not only our democracy, but the very soul of our America, as well, and demand that post haste, they drag Jack Bolton into a public hearing and put him under oath, so that we the American people can hear him in his own words answer these critical questions before we get much further into the 2020 presidential season, to wit:

QUESTION ONE: Jack, dude, tell us, on how many different occasions did Donald J. Trump confide in you as one of his closest friends and advisors that he greatly feared Joe Biden as a presidential opponent more than any other Democrat in the throng who could possibly run against Trump for president?

QUESTION TWO: Given the public record of Joe Biden’s considerable weakness as a presidential candidate, including dropping out of the race twice now, once for plagiarizing a speech, and once because he simply was a loser trailing behind everyone else, like he is doing all over again, what reasons did Donald J. Trump give you for fearing Joe Biden so much that he felt he needed the help of the dude in Ukraine to derail Joe’s campaign before it could even get going by uncovering the dirt on what Joe was up to over there when he was vice president and his worthless ne’er-do-well misfit son Hunter was given a cushy job on the Burisma board because Joe couldn’t get him anything else, especially after the kid got kicked out of the Navy for snorting coke?

QUESTION THREE: Jack, as a national security expert, one of our foremost, do you subscribe to the theory of Tim Morrison as stated to Adam Schiff that the United States aids Ukraine and her people so that they can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here?

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Yes, people, let us finally, finally, for the sake of our mental health, before this INSANITY engulfs the entire nation as it has engulfed the Democrats, get to the bottom of things here and get this SICK SHOW over by getting Jack Bolton on the witness stand to get to the very bottom of Trump’s visceral fear of a two-time loser like Joe Biden, whose campaign, according to the New York Times article Joe Biden in Iowa: What Went Wrong in the Caucuses” by Katie Glueck, Jonathan Martin and Thomas Kaplan on 6 February 2020, was a real incompetent mess, to wit:

Mr. Biden’s performance in the Iowa caucuses on Monday dealt a damaging blow to the former vice president; with well over 90 percent of the results counted by Wednesday night, he trailed Pete Buttigieg and Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, with Senator Amy Klobuchar not far behind.

“I am not going to sugarcoat it,” Mr. Biden said Wednesday as he campaigned in New Hampshire.

“We took a gut punch in Iowa.”

But he now faces jittery donors, an uncertain landscape in upcoming Democratic contests and a sharp challenge to the central argument of his campaign message: that he is the party’s strongest candidate to win a general election.

Mr. Biden was also a less-than-inspiring presence on the trail, according to some voters, struggling at times in the homestretch to deliver crisp, energetic, on-message performances.

“His campaign is not a good campaign,” Roxanna Moritz, the Scott County auditor and a Biden supporter, said late last month.

And party officials continued to describe his Iowa organization as scattershot, an issue thrown into sharp relief at the party dinner in November, the Liberty and Justice Celebration.

Mr. Biden’s team said that it had around 1,200 people in the arena, many of whom went on to become precinct captains and dedicated volunteers.

But the empty seats and the smaller and less boisterous Biden sections spread throughout the arena cut a sharp contrast with the loud, unified crowds of Ms. Warren and Mr. Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., in a major test of organizational strength.

More damaging than the evident differences in crowd strength was what many Iowa Democrats were seeing for the first time in person: a once-fiery candidate who was looking his age compared with a number of his younger rivals.

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So, yes, people, before things go too much further, we need to hear from Jack Bolton as to why Trump feared a known loser like Joe Biden so much that he had to turn to a Ukrainian dude to do him a favor here with respect to derailing Joe Biden’s campaign. because if it is true that Trump greatly feared Joe Biden, of all people, then Trump would have to be insane, which would bar him from running again.

And then there is this Vindman hysteria in the New York Times article “Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Gordon Sondland and Alexander Vindman in Post-Acquittal Purge” by Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, Danny Hakim and Michael S. Schmidt (boy, it takes a lot of people to write a NYT story) on 8 February 2020, where we have the following moaning and shrieking by the Democrats, which shows them to be pathetically stupid, to wit:

The president’s critics had warned that he would feel unbound if acquitted, and some said that the dismissal of Mr. Sondland and the Vindman brothers proved their point, quickly calling it “the Friday night massacre,” as Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, put it.

“These are the actions of a man who believes he is above the law,” said Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the lead House impeachment manager.

Mr. Schumer said the White House was running from the truth.

“This action is not a sign of strength,” he said.

“It only shows President Trump’s weakness.”

Ms. Pelosi said, “This goes too far.”

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And what ignorant hogwash that all is, which takes us back in time in our real American history, not the insane fantasy version the Democrats have created out of whole cloth, to November 5, 1862, the “Order Relieving General G. B. McClellan and Making Other Changes” by Abraham Lincoln, where in this order, one day after the congressional mid-term elections, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln relieved Union general George B. McClellan, a potential political rival, of command of the Army of the Potomac, to wit:

Executive Mansion, Washington, November 5, 1862.

By direction of the President, it is ordered that Major-General McClellan be relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac, and that Major-General Burnside take the command of that army.

Also that Major-General Hunter take command of the corps in said army which is now commanded by General Burnside.

That Major-General Fitz-John Porter be relieved from command of the corps he now commands in said army, and that Major-General Hooker take command of said corps.

The general-in-chief is authorized, in [his] discretion, to issue an order substantially as the above, forthwith, or so soon as he may deem proper.

A. Lincoln.

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Now, people, that is OUR history, high school history, actually, and the president as commander-in-chief has the sole discretion to have in command in OUR military officers that he trusts.

When he can no longer trust them, then he sacks them, like Lincoln sacked McClellan, plain and simple.

So Vindman, who proved himself not only untrustworthy, but as dumb as a box of rocks, and who wants an idiot on the NSC, when he appeared before Adam Schiff in his bemedaled fancy dress uniform at one of Adam’s many hearings, and while in uniform, and on active duty, and blatantly assisted Schiff in trying to influence the 2020 presidential elections in the favor of the Democrats is gone, and so he should be, because military officers in uniform should not be playing at partisan politics.

END OF THAT STORY!

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Paul Plante says :

Very interesting commentary, but in some ways incomplete, or mistaken, especially with regard to the subject of due process of law, which truly does not exist in the case of a presidential impeachment by the House of Representatives as was made incandescently clear in the impeachment of Democrat Andy Johnson in 1868 by the Radical Republicans then in control of the House of Representatives.

On Feb. 21, 1868, it was alleged that Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act when he issued an order without consent of Congress to remove Edwin Stanton from the office of Secretary of War, and on that very same day, Republican U.S. Rep. John Covode of Pennsylvania stood up in the House of Representatives and introduced a resolution to impeach the president by saying "I impeach Andrew Johnson!”

As our long-forgotten American history (it did happen before this morning, afterall) tells us, or used to, anyway, back when we actually had a history, Covode’s resolution was introduced on a Friday and when Congress reconvened after the weekend on Feb. 24, they voted for the first time in U.S. history to impeach the president.

BANG!

Just like that.

A president, or political party, for that matter, gets no more “due process” of law in the House than does a person accused of a crime in the grand jury chambers.

Due process starts once the indictment or Articles of Impeachment are handed down, not before, and yes, I am very familiar with criminal procedure law.

The House could have impeached Trump in about two minutes or less by just one congressperson like John Covode standing up to blurt out “I impeach Donald J. Trump,” followed by the vote of the House, just the same way a district attorney can get a ham sandwich indicted by the grand jury for murdering a pig,

I’m surprised they didn’t charge Trump with stealing chickens, myself.

As to impeachment, in the Preface to HISTORY OF THE IMPEACHMENT OF ANDREW JOHNSON PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND HIS TRIAL BY THE SENATE FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS IN OFFICE 1868 by Edmund G. Ross, David B. Hill writes thusly:

Little is now known to the general public of the history of the attempt to remove President Andrew Johnson in 1868, on his impeachment by the House of Representatives and trial by the Senate for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors in office, or of the causes that led to it.

Yet it was one of the most important and critical events, involving possibly the gravest consequences, in the entire history of the country.

The constitutional power to impeach and remove the President had lain dormant since the organization of the Government, and apparently had never been thought of as a means for the satisfaction of political enmities or for the punishment of alleged executive misdemeanors, even in the many heated controversies between the President and Congress that had theretofore arisen.

Nor would any attempt at impeachment have been made at that time but for the great numerical disparity then existing between the respective representatives in Congress of the two political parties of the country.

A new generation is now in control of public affairs and the destinies of the Nation have fallen to new hands.

New issues have developed and will continue to develop from time to time; and new dangers will arise, with increasing numbers and changing conditions, demanding in their turn the same careful scrutiny, wisdom and patriotism in adjustment.

But the principles that underlie and constitute the basis of our political organism, are and will remain the same; and will never cease to demand constant vigilance for their perpetuation as the rock of safety upon which our federative system is founded.

To those who in the study of the country’s past seek a broader and higher conception of the duties of American citizenship, the facts pertaining to the controversy between the Executive and Congress as to the restoration and preservation of the Union, set out in the following pages, will be interesting and instructive.

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In the book itself, the author, Edmund Gibson Ross, December 7, 1826 – May 8, 1907, a politician who represented Kansas after the American Civil War and was later governor of the New Mexico Territory, and whose vote as the seventh of seven Republican U.S. Senators to break with his party against convicting President Andrew Johnson of “high crimes and misdemeanors” allowed Johnson to stay in office by the margin of one vote, stated thusly as to his opinion as to why Andy Johnson was impeached by the House in this short sentence, to wit:

This (Johnson’s views on reconstruction after Lincoln was assassinated) did not comport with the purposes of the Congressional faction (Radical Republicans) that had opposed Mr. Lincoln’s plans, which faction, under the pressure of the general indignation over his murder, quickly rose to the absolute control of Congress.

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In CHAPTER 1. — THE PROBLEM OF RECONSTRUCTION – MR. LINCOLN’S PLAN, the author who was alive at the time wrote as follows:

As to the success of Mr. Lincoln’s plans, had they been sanctioned, or even had they not been repudiated by Congress, Mr. Blaine, in his book, asserts that Mr. Lincoln, “By his four years of considerate and successful administration, by his patient and positive trust in the ultimate triumph of the Union, realized at last as he stood upon the edge of the grave — he had acquired so complete an ascendancy over the public, control in the loyal states, that ANY POLICY MATURED AND ANNOUNCED BY HIM WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED BY A VAST MAJORITY OF HIS COUNTRYMEN.”

It was indicative of the sagacious foresight of Mr. Lincoln that he did not call the Congress into special session at the close of the war, as would have been natural and usual, before attempting the establishment of any method for the restoration of the revolted States.

The fact that he did not do so, but was making preparations to proceed immediately in that work on his own lines and in accordance with his own ideas, and with the hearty accord of his entire Cabinet, of itself affords proof that he was apprehensive of obstruction from the same element of his party that subsequently arose in opposition to Mr. Johnson on that question, and that he preferred to put his plans into operation before the assembling of Congress in the next regular winter session, in order that he might be able then to show palpable results, and induce Congress to accept and follow up a humane, peaceful and satisfactory system of reconstruction.

Mr. Lincoln undoubtedly hoped thus to avoid unnecessary friction.

Having the quite unlimited confidence of the great mass of the people of the country, of both parties and on both sides of the line of hostilities, there seem to be excellent reasons for believing that he would have succeeded, and that the extraordinary and exasperating differences and local turmoils that followed the drastic measures which were afterward adopted by Congress over the President’s vetoes, would have been in a very large degree avoided, and THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO IMPEACHMENT — either of Mr. Lincoln had he lived, or of Mr. Johnson after him.

It was the misfortune of the time, and of the occasion, which determined Mr. Lincoln to institute a plan of restoration during the interim of Congress, that the Republican party, then in absolute control of Congress, was in no sense equipped for such a work.

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Are there any lessons for us in our times in any of that?

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