Trump begins impeachment counterattack against hypocrites, spies, and Democrats
He’s been here before with the Mueller investigation, but the stakes are even higher now
It seems House Democrats are dead set on impeaching our duly elected president and that extraordinary measures were taken to ensure there’s the smoke-and-mirrors appearance of a there there. They are not going to have an easy time of it, however, because President Trump and his team are coming out swinging.
I’ve been watching Democrats’ most recent attempt to undo the 2016 presidential election with a mixture of disbelief, nausea, and disgust. The double-standards and hypocrisy are staggering.
“Republicans of all stripes need to recognize the threat to national unity and cohesion does not come from Trump’s request to Zelensky – it comes from the refusal of Democrats to let the American people decide who our president should be.”https://t.co/RNWd4SXF20
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) September 28, 2019
I (almost) couldn’t believe that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) pulled the trigger on impeaching President Trump before the transcript of the call was even released, and I was nonplussed when the nothingburger transcript didn’t do a thing to slow down the impeachment train.
President Trump is, quite understandably, calling this latest “bombshell” of nothingness another witch hunt and fake news.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1177262335771021312
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1177793877530546177
One of the more effective political ads I’ve seen takes direct aim at the Democrats spearheading this latest attack on Trump.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1177669563477118976
As noted by Professor Jacobson, the “whistle blower” memo “was a very professionally-done document, likely crafted by a lawyer.”
Indeed, Trump’s lawyer stated the same thing the following day.
The Washington Examiner reports:
President Trump’s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow alleged that the whistleblower complaint filed by an intelligence community official was written by “a law firm.”
. . . . Sekulow appeared on Fox & Friends Friday morning to discuss the ongoing saga.
He began, “So, when you start with a witness saying, Steve and Brian, ‘I have no knowledge of the events I’m depicting here, and I’m basing this on conversations I had with colleagues of mine, and I think they are trustworthy.’ Well, do you know if they heard it correctly? Well, I don’t know because I don’t have firsthand knowledge. And do you think the whistleblower drafted that complaint? I mean realistically?”
Trump and his legal team are not alone in pushing back, many people are pointing out facts that don’t seem to make the headlines.
As to the whistleblower complaint — the transcript speaks for itself – no quid pro quo.
The Democrats bought a pig in a poke.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 26, 2019
Reminder, as this tweet points out: what we’ve seen is the Ukrainians weren’t aware aid was being reviewed during the call. It wasn’t until a month later.
So President Trump was “extorting” Ukraine with something they… didn’t know about?
The sham narrative is collapsing. https://t.co/Dk3mBNjkR5
— Mark Meadows (@MarkMeadows) September 27, 2019
Oh, by the way — the Obama administration told Ukraine to investigate Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
In 2016. During an election.https://t.co/Qmh7ai9Nug
"But at least it wasn't OBAMA!"
How do you know? Only Trump showed us the transcript.#Transparency #ImpeachThis
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) September 27, 2019
9. So too was Obama/Biden's FBI using Russian info (Steele dossier) to go after Trump. So too was Hillary getting info from Ukraine to target Manafort.
10. As usual, the Beltway goes crazy when Trump does it. I can't stand the hypocrisy.
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) September 23, 2019
2016 – President Obama brought Ukraine investigators and prosecutors to the White House to coordinate investigating Paul Manafort and others: https://t.co/m6BKIV0K6x #Ukrainegate #UkraineHoax #transcript
— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) September 26, 2019
In America you can’t even get a parking ticket based on hearsay testimony.
But you can impeach a president?
I certainly hope not.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 28, 2019
Trump and his allies are now ramping up their attacks on Democrats, the media, the whistleblower and the various sources who fed information on the president that made its way into the complaint. . . .
. . . . But the president and his legal team are fighting back by likening the whistleblower and his or her sources to spies — and questioning whether this is all the work of partisans.
“Sounding more and more like the so-called Whistleblower isn’t a Whistleblower at all. In addition, all second hand information that proved to be so inaccurate that there may not have even been somebody else, a leaker or spy, feeding it to him or her? A partisan operative?” Trump tweeted Friday.
. . . . On Thursday, acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire testified publicly before the House Intelligence Committee. Despite being pressed for hours by Democrats, Maguire maintained that the whistleblower complaint was “hearsay” and “second-hand” information—a sentiment Sekulow echoed Friday.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) points out a few home truths about Democrat priorities and motivation.
Since the day @realDonaldTrump was elected, congressional Democrats have been working to find any reason under the sun to impeach the president and undo the results of the last election. First, it was Mueller, then the Mueller report found no collusion. Now it’s Ukraine.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 25, 2019
Next month, it will be something else.
Despite the wild speculations from the media, career intelligence community staffers, and congressional Democrats, the actual transcript of the call reveals no illegal quid pro quo.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 25, 2019
ICYMI on @AmericaNewsroom: The Democrats refuse to get over their hatred of @realDonaldTrump. They're not interested in substantive legislation — they just want to attack POTUS. That's not good for the American people. pic.twitter.com/RaD1KrWzks
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 27, 2019
The GOP has released the following flashback footage of Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) that gets right to the heart of what Democrats are really trying to do: overturn the 2016 election.
#FlashbackFriday: In 1998, Nadler claimed that “an impeachment of a President is an undoing of a National Election” ⬇️pic.twitter.com/bTj0OcCRB1
— GOP (@GOP) September 27, 2019
Normal Americans are also fighting back . . . with their wallets.
UPDATE: We have now raised almost $15 million in small dollar donations (including 50,000 NEW donors) since @SpeakerPelosi started this impeachment charade 72 hrs ago! Unbelievable numbers!! Keep it going — you and the dems are handing @realDonaldTrump the win in 2020! ????
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) September 27, 2019
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$15 million in 3 days, really speaks to how so many are getting fed up and furious with the Dems BS!
Where or where is Barr? How about an immediate investigation into the IC’s August 2019 changing of whistleblower documents to allow pure hearsay?
Where is Barr on anything?
yeah
AG Barr is turning out to be a giant disappointment like his predecessor
I’m still pessimisticly reserved about what might come out of the horowitz/barr/durham investigations but FWIW, I got a chance to talk with my congressman today and he seems fairly upbeat about what will eventually result. It would make sense that the dems would be pushing this Ukraine farce in the face of an impending metaphorical nuke landing in their lap. They have to have some idea of what at least the horowitz report says since it’s circulating the agencies for classification review. Someone would certainly be passing them information.
I would like to be optimistic, but I have stopped counting on any impending action to move successfully past that stage.
It’s become nearly impossible to count on these so called reports.
Comey- he broke the law, but heck, he might not have meant to, so give him a pass.
McCabe – rinse and repeat above.
Mueller – a smear job obviously designed to slime the President and inserted opinions over facts to smear the President while stating there is no crime.
The only indictments were against those who worked for Trump. Hillary not investigated even though the “special counsel” was supposed to be looking for Russian interference. How is it only Trump and those who worked for him got this treatment despite the obvious shady if not criminal actions of her people?
Till I see they are handing out indictments, I doubt anyone other than Trump will have any actions brought against them.
He is in Italy, conducting an investigation.
That last video of The Waddler in 1998 – WOW.
Not only for what he said as compared to what he says now re: impeachment, but also for his enormous size.
yeah, Nadler really does look like the Penguin there
As a NewYorker I remember Nadler, Sharpton and even nice guy weatherman Al Roker as being huge and slimming down eventually.
let me be on record with this post that I think the Dems attempt to use this whistleblower complaint as the catalyst for an impeachment may end up handing Trump a comfortable 2020 victory
because it does two things
1) it shows a partisan effort by House Dems to impeach for the flimsiest of reasons while they ignore the previous administrations use of foreign entities to create a false narrative of Trump-Russia collusion
and remember – THAT is still fresh on alot of minds
and 2) this hurts Joe Biden’s campaign going forward and giving Elizabeth Warren a nudge towards the nomination
and for Trump – Fauxcahontas is like running against HRC all over again because outside the liberal circles, everyone else either hates her or sees her as the phony she is
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and the unsung 3) the Dems are going bat shit crazy for socialism, which is only popular in their own base
Generally agree, but amplify
(1) The REASON the Dems are going crazy and talking impeachment is that their only hope in the election, Biden, is taken out by the Ukraine revelations. He was their hope. They know impeachment is crazy and they’d rather not try it, but now they see no choice.
(2) Warren is no Hillary, not half as bright. Hillary was smoooth and never caught without a good retort. Warren doesn’t have that ability.
If Barr/Huber/Durham don’t go on offense PDQ, this thing is going to spiral out of control and the House will impeach Trump.
Based on the extraordinary amount of time Barr has taken — and the crickets we have heard to-date — I’m beginning to think this thing is a goner.
Thank goodness I’m on the downward slope of my product life cycle; I won’t have to watch the utter humiliation and degradation of the country I love.
Heavy sign 🙁
Democrats – Threatened swamp creatures.
“By Any Means Necessary” say they.
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Democrats entire 2020 agenda is Socialism at any cost (to you) and Orange Man Bad.
Any this gets some real votes?
I really the music in the video….it harkens back to The Exorcist.
No amount of reason will deter the dems; They don’t believe in reason. No amount of shaming will work either; They have no shame. It’s time to go scorched earth on the democrats. By any means necessary.
Obama spied, Clinton colluded, Biden obstructed, the journolists held warlock trials, the social media platforms steered… bigots/sanctimonious hypocrites, maybe. Technically, they are Pro-Choice (i.e. “ethical”), selective, opportunistic, relativistic.
Regarding Barr, why interrupt the opposition when they are destroying themselves? If you prosecute, you must win, and that requires getting an honest jury. Remember Menendez.
OT but…..thanks to barrage of ads showing carrots being flushed down a toilet on all pages here I have blocked all ads and all tracking cookies/etc.
site admin went to far with the amount of ad placements.
Controlling and dominating the news cycle narrative is all important for the democrats; prior to the August congressional break Trump was dominating the cycle and leading the media by the nose. Which means he was leading the democrat party by the nose.
The Dems/media recaptured the news cycle post congressional break. And to continue control of the narrative cycle democrats must engage in a non-stop series of Maoist/red guard Struggle Sessions. They’ll continue to refocus those sessions – Trump today, Barr tomorrow. Whatever works. In the short term they don’t care if any of it makes sense. Or is logical. As long as they dominate the news cycle.
That’s fine.
The DEMS are turning off more and more of their base,
especially those with money to donate.
Don’t ignore the Romney claims. While I hope he is doing an imitation of Harry Reid, can we really be sure of that?
Romney didn’t stick his neck out at all through the Obama lies thrown at him, why would he now?
Something or someone gave him a backbone against his own party’s President.
His underhandedness sure doesn’t speak well for the religion he claims to practice.
I have been wondering why the MSM/DNC axis suddenly decided to push forward with impeachment, even though the rationale for it publicly evaporated within 24 hours of the initial decision.
Probably Democrats sealed a behind-the-scenes dirty deal with some GOPe Representatives and Senators. Senator Mitt Romneycare is obvious, and I think that Mike Lee and Ben Sasse are also part of it. In the House all Democrats need is a single Republican to give the coup attempt an air of “bipartisanship”, and they won’t have to do much to get one.
Here is what I see happening:
1. House Democrats (with a handful of rented Republicans) vote to impeach Trump, probably in December. There may be even be much in the way of formal hearings – the goal will be to tell the public they has arrived at Removal Station before they even know they have boarded the impeachment train.
2. Romneycare, Lee, Sasse and probably a few other GOPe weasels drag the resulting Senate trial out for months with one delaying procedural tactic after another (that’s the dirty deal – no Trump with the GOPe dream of open borders and gun control). The entire time the MSM/DNC axis will be demanding Trump resign “for the good of the country” in an effort to weaken him and make nervous GOPe senators vote to convict just to end the circus.
3. As a backup plan to removal, the Democrat nominee will promote himself/herself as the only way the country can “return to normal” (read: undisputed one party communism).
I agree that’s possible. I think it’s unlikely because so many votes are needed in the Senate and the darn thing already doesn’t pass the smell test.
But according to the HJC document from 1974 or so, the one Hillary helped write, the president is supposed to be weak and impeachable for pretty much anything. Sasse is certainly the sort to go along with that logic, but he’s up for reelection in 2020 and I would guess this nonsense will be unpopular in Nebraska. Still since he’s the “Republican” candidate, he could be safe if he gets past the primary.
If the House thought they could get 67 votes in the Senate next week, the Dems would pass articles of impeachment tomorrow.
This is because the CrowdStrike Spying Computer Network is in the Ukraine most assuredly.
“CIA, FBI, and Hillary Clinton use CrowdStrike software to tap, collect, and sell surveillance information”
“The CIA and FBI use CrowdStrike software as a back door into the nation’s cyber systems.
CrowdStrike software is installed in nearly every federal agency and department including Congress, the FBI, the Defense Department, and the White House…..”
https://brassballs.blog/home/cia-and-fbi-and-hillary-clinton-use-crowdstrike-software-to-tap-and-collect-and-sell-surveillance-information
From Rush yesterday:
“PAY ATTENTION! Limbaugh Reveals What Mitt Romney Told Nancy Pelosi In Secret
Limbaugh said Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney told Pelosi that enough Senate Republicans would break ranks to remove Trump from office.
Limbaugh declared that “yesterday and today Sen. Mitt Romney, Republican, Utah, had phone calls or meetings, whatever, with Pelosi and assured her there was Republican support to remove Trump.”
Limbaugh also noted how he believes Romney has been desperately waiting for the “right time” to “get rid of Trump.”
“I don’t think that means that Romney has enough Republicans to actually convict,” Limbaugh added…..”
https://explainlife.com/pay-attention-limbaugh-reveals-what-mitt-romney-told-nancy-pelosi-in-secret-16855/
Pelosi would be a fool to trust Romneycare’s vote counting abilities, let alone being able to deliver them. This bozo was so certain he would win in 2012 that he bragged before the election that he didn’t bother to write a concession speech.
Romney’s a crook. He’s hoping that impeachment and conviction will keep him out of jail.
And your evidence for this is what? When has there ever been even a breath of scandal around him?
The GOPe has a firm belief that they can not only weather the storm of removing Trump but actually gain power and position from it. They probably assume that voters who backed Trump will have no where to go and must stay on the Republican plantation since the alternative is far, far, far Leftists running everything. The GOPe is about to “Whig-out” the party by doing this. Cutting deals with the Dems is selling out millions of people for personal gain.
What would Henry Bowman do?
What sort of response(s) would we get from Dems if they were asked to define an “election”?
Countless articles decry “election interference” while an article by Ari Fleischer at Fox says: “Asking a foreign nation to get involved in an American campaign matter is wrong.” (see https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ari-fleischer-dem-drive-to-impeach-trump-over-ukraine-call-is-hysterical-hyperbolic-and-hypocritical ) :
“Election interference” vs “campaign matter” begs the question what is the definition of “election”? It might pay to ask the people making the accusations against Trump to define it and then contrast what will surely be a wide variety of definitions.
At this stage of the game, I wonder how it could possibly be “election interference” without having had a single state caucus, nor primary? The party candidate hasn’t been selected. No ballots have been printed. No debates between the election nominees.
I suppose in the purest sense, “election interference” amounts to ballot tampering, interference with polling station access or with the tallying of ballots, etc. In that sense, Russian election interference would seem to be a tin-foil hat worthy conspiracy theory.
It would be hard to come up with a form of election interference more serious and cynical than trying to impeach the incumbent candidate for the crime of being favored to win re-election.
These Dems/Progs have been trying to get rid of the President since the election. They cannot believe that they lost a rigged election to someone who has never been elected office. Make no mistake, the 2030 vote will be another rigged election.
It’s the media running it, not the democrats. They get clicks from their audience, an audience that sees it all as entertainment in a fictional world they choose to live in. The democrats are free-riding because the audience also votes.
More of the same kind of stuff will work again and again, for clicks and eyeballs sold to advertisers.
It’s misguided to see the forces at work as lying and so forth. It’s clicks plus free-riding on them.
The right has a corresponding news entertainment addiction, to sites reporting what the crazy left is up to now. The real problem being how do you keep the left from voting the way they seem to incline to.
Nobody’s actually interested enough in hard news to support a news business of hard news.
Repealing women’s vote might be enough to decouple entertainment from free riding on it.
Chicks with clicks.
I told Trump in an email that pushing gun control to placate the fascists wouldn’t stop them from impeaching him. He could give them everything they say they want and they’d still impeach him.
Wonder if Ivanka has figured out placating these fascists isn’t going to do any good for her either when they decide to seriously come for her.
But you repeat yourself.
Pelosi was certain that Trump would never in the world release the unredacted transcript of the phone call when she declared impeachment inquiry.
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Then he did.
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The Dems then thought there was no way Trump would allow the release of the unredacted whistle blower complaint so they doubled down on impeachment.
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Then he did!
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Now they are backed into a corner they can’t escape. Unfortunately, the Dems on the Judiciary Committee can find him guilty of anything they want to because the bar is so low that Trump just has to sneeze to be found guilty of murder.
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Getting enough people to commit political suicide over this is another story.
One thought – Will the next step be for the Dems on the Committee to subpoena more of Trump’s conversations with world leaders. This is a catch 22. If he says absolutely not, they will claim cover up and use it for impeachment. If they are successful, it will make it impossible for him to converse with any world leader again.
With the rule change of “They heard it from a friend of a friend.” there will be no end to the investigations. However this rule change can be used against them. Call it the Harry Reid Hubris rule.