I haven’t commented about the Department of Justice’s Inspector General report because I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. Until that happens everything else will be battlespace preparation.
I haven’t commented about the Department of Justice’s Inspector General report because I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. Until that happens everything else will be battlespace preparation.
The articles of impeachment?
Why am I not commenting on them? I don’t think there’s anything to comment on. The Democrats in the House will vote to impeach Trump; they won’t get any Republican support. The Republicans in the Senate will vote to acquit; they won’t get any appreciable Democratic support.
What’s to comment on?
I’ve already said my piece. The House and Senate should have voted to censure immediately. Seizing the opportunity presented by the Ukraine phone call to impeach Trump has not been a productive exercise.
Former Clinton adviser Paul Bengals has advised that the House could impeach Trump as many times as the calandra permits while Republicans day they are ready to begin impeachment against Joe Biden on day one. Fascinating.
That’s what I have been warning about.
The Democrats in the house have decided to impeach Trump for a vague assertion of ‘abuse of power’ which effectively means anything he did they don’t like and for not complying with subpoenas which aren’t subpoenas because they have no force of law since the full House hasn’t voted to impeach Trump. The articles are so laughable because Pelosi & Co (as well as the corrupt Senators, both D’s and R’s) very much don’t want an actual Senate trial which would permit discovery, they just want the optics of ‘we tried to get rid of Orange Man Bad but the dirty evil corrupt Republicans thwarted us once again!’ No different than the Republicans voting to repeal Obamacare ten bazillion times knowing there was zero chance of it happening (not that I’m a fan of O-care, very far from it).
The Horowitz report has detailed and put down on paper any number of lies, omissions, and fabrications used to spy on Trump’s campaign and administration, the ‘predicate’ coming down to Australian ambassador Downer telling the FBI that Papadopoulos told him he heard the Russians had dirt on Her Odiousness. Hearsay which they didn’t act on for months until they needed it to back-justify their actions. So hearsay is what the FBI went to Defcon1 for spying on the President, to borrow a phrase from Jonathan Turley. And these are the people many feel should be running the country instead of Orange Man Bad.
That’s not precisely true. Under House rules the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee may issue subpoenas under his own authority.
Where I think the case is weakest is that they have created a novel definition of “abuse of power” and don’t accept executive privilege.
The House Chairman can issue subpoenas but the executive doesn’t have to comply unless a certain S Court says so.
The farce continues.
As for the IG report, contrary to media propaganda its full of damning conclusions. But the IG has no teeth, so its not a whitewash, but its perfectly made for obfuscation. Durham is a different story.
Yeah, guess we can wait for the next Republican sponsored investigation, but that little boy has cried wolf way too often. The GOP just has endless investigations, often redoing the same investigations, never finding anything. No credibility left. OTOH, sooner or later they ought to find something. They cant really be wrong all the time can they?
Steve