Is Impeachment Now Inevitable?

Guest Post by Pat Buchanan

Joe Biden

Declaring for impeachment also gives Biden a way to deflect questions about what son Hunter did for that $50,000 a month from a Ukrainian energy company, while Joe Biden was Barack Obama’s point man battling corruption in Ukraine.

“There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader,” is a remark attributed to a French politician during the turbulent times of 1848.

Joe Biden’s Wednesday declaration that President Donald Trump should be impeached is in that tradition. Joe is scrambling to get out in front of the sentiment for impeachment in the party he professes to lead.

Several factors surely influenced Biden’s change of mind.

Beset by gaffes and mental lapses while campaigning, which rivals like Cory Booker have seized upon to imply that Biden, at 76, is losing it and may not be up to the demands of the presidency, the former vice president has been on a steady slide in the polls.

This week, he was displaced as Democratic front-runner by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. And the $15 million Biden boasts of raising in the third quarter was eclipsed by the $25 million raised by Warren.

Moreover, with Bernie Sanders hospitalized after a heart attack, the possibility of a stampede to Warren as the socialist-progressive flag-bearer of the party has become real.

Biden concluded that he could not remain ambivalent and allow his rivals to appear tougher on Trump, especially when the cause of impeachment unites and animates the party and media establishment as powerfully as it does.

By taking his stand, Biden has made the question — Where do you stand on impeaching Trump? — the big issue in Tuesday’s Democratic debate.

Declaring for impeachment also gives Biden a way to deflect questions about what son Hunter did for that $50,000 a month from a Ukrainian energy company, while Joe Biden was Barack Obama’s point man battling corruption in Ukraine.

So it was that Biden came to tell a rally in New Hampshire:

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“To preserve our constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached. … He’s shooting holes in the constitution … we cannot let him get away with it.”

With polls showing a majority of Americans favoring an inquiry, and a Fox News poll showing a majority favoring Trump’s conviction and removal, impeachment appears inevitable.

What is Trump’s defense strategy?

Earlier this week, with a defiant letter from White House counsel Pat Cipollone dismissing the House inquiry as a fraud and a farce, Trump seemed to signal a strategy of massive resistance.

Wrote Cipollone: “Your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections. … The Executive Branch cannot be expected to participate in it.”

By Wednesday, however, Trump had backed away from Armageddon.

His new position: If the full House votes to open an impeachment inquiry, and he is given the same rights and protections Richard Nixon was given in 1974, he, Trump, would respect House subpoenas, while retaining the right to challenge them in the Supreme Court.

Thus, as Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats seek to ram through a bill of impeachment by Thanksgiving, based on Trump’s July 25 phone call to Ukraine’s president, Trump is preparing for siege warfare.

As Trump has himself conceded, impeachment is probable, even if the outcome of this historic collision between the president and Congress, which will decide the fates of Pelosi, Trump and Biden alike, is, as of yet, undetermined.

Yet in this struggle, Trump is not without assets.

The first is Adam Schiff, who has become the prosecution’s face in the impeachment battle. This is good news for the White House. For Schiff’s visceral hatred of Trump and desire to see him impeached, convicted, deposed, disgraced and imprisoned is a matter of record.

As long as Schiff heads up the impeachment inquiry, many will see it as simply a savage, partisan and vindictive exercise.

Then are also two potentially explosive inquiries into the roots of the Mueller investigation that are well-advanced. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been looking into allegations that the FBI and DOJ abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to launch the probe and kick-start the Russia investigation.

The Horowitz report is expected to be released within weeks.

U.S. Attorney John Durham has also spent months investigating the origins of the counter-intelligence investigation of Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos.

Among Durham’s questions: Were intel agents of Britain, Italy and Australia enlisted to spy on Americans by U.S. intelligence agencies? For any counterintelligence operation against a presidential campaign would have required a signoff by then-President Obama.

Administration officials have also told Fox News that when Robert Mueller met with Trump in May 2017, Mueller was pursuing the open post as director of the FBI, something the former special counsel denied under oath during his congressional testimony.

Emails released this month through a Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch indicate Mueller knew he could be named as special counsel if he wasn’t chosen as FBI director.

Russiagate consumed the first three years of Trump’s presidency. “Ukrainegate” and impeachment give promise of dominating the fourth.

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Coalclinker
Coalclinker

I predict that very soon Mr. Trump’s people will spark a return to the topic of Hillary’s rapacious corruption. Shortly thereafter and possibly simultaneously, Obammi will have his dirty laundry dragged out for all to see. The Demosheviks may possibly get violent, on a daily occurrence.

Vote Harder
Vote Harder

Why hasn’t Trump followed through on his campaign promise of locking her up? He’s made no moves, he’s made no mention.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer

That’s the question, isn’t it?

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

When you have more than 5 decades of corruption where more than $25 trillion have gone missing from the Government’s coffers, and the people who have stolen it have also committed unspeakable evils against their fellow man, how long would it take to uncover it all?

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

The American followers of Moloch have everything to lose. They will get very violent before this is over with, and that’s when no one will complain when the Writ of Habeas Corpus is suspended. I advise you to stay away from any large crowds.

Ghost

We grow increasingly reluctant to venture beyond local towns. (200 or less…tiny towns)

I will pay the extra to the local grocery.

Especially ones with local or alternative brands.

Vote Harder
Vote Harder

Russiagate consumed the first three years of Trump’s presidency. “Ukrainegate” and impeachment give promise of dominating the fourth.

How many gates can they come up with?

EC
EC

Votey, I read what somebody wrote on the sidewalk in downtown LA: When plan A and B fail, remember that there are 24 more letters in the alphabet.

A dress shop at the Grove had something like this on their sidewalk sign: I have the wedding dress, shoes, veil and maids of honor, all I need is the groom.

TampaRed

when i read things like this i have a range of emotions-anger,fear,sadness,disgust are a few but one of the most common is contempt for our fellow citizens who should know better–
i suspect that one of the main reasons most of us come to tbp is that we are generally like minded individuals who can say what we really believe here w/o consequences–
but why do we have to come here to speak frankly & openly?why can’t we do so on the job or at the cafe?
the people who are leading the charge against mr trump represent the bad things in our country–gimme dats,deviancy,ignorance,a lack of manners & taste,nearly every bad issue in our society is represented by these people–
however,those people are not the problem–the problem is our family,friends,neighbors,co workers and others who do not participate in anti social behavior but encourage it by not only not condemning it but refusing to be in solidarity with people who do condemn it,and often condemn those of us who do for harping on it–how many of us have people in our lives who say we are too negative,too intolerant,bigoted,etc.? “can’t we just have one get together w/o you talking politics & being negative?”
just remember when you are raging against nancy pelosi or the leftist media that they could not be effective w/o the acquiescence of the average joe/jane —

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao

I feel for ya, Tampa….but just a little. Try steppin past the paradigm of demonrat/republicants and into the concept that the whole gawdam system is a designed inversion to obtain esoteric goals of apotheosis..

The whole Biden knee jerk, as well as Trump ‘trying the case’ with campaign rhetoric, is all theater. This is a condensed fifty minutes from a two hour talk by Glenn Beck at Blazetv:

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<———-== stay tuned, same bat-time; same bat-channel

The 'evidence' is all there. When the Emperor is real, the news will be reporting on the massive arrests being made. Plain and simple.

anonymous
anonymous
Ghost

Thanks for that link. I hadn’t watch Glen in a.few.years.

Mygirl...maybe

Watched that a few nights ago, Glenn lost it for awhile but seems to be back on track with the superior researching and…it seems he’s physically channeling Colonel Sanders.

EC
EC

Tampa, maybe you are going through menopause. Men don’t do ‘range of emotions’. Pick one and stick with it.

TampaRed

men are allowed to cry these days–i can have all the emotions i please & you’ll see by all the up votes i get on this comment that all the other guys agree & are giving me a digital hug–
now leave me alone you unfeeling brute,i’m going to the powder room–

Ghost

There.there.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

We all tend to stay within our bubbles and assimilate with like minded individuals. I get together with a group of men once a week for breakfast and we all share similar ideas about religion, politics, guns and morality. We talk openly about these things and share out thoughts, just as we do on TBP. I used to work with a couple of liberals, but they were vastly outnumbered by the conservatives and did not make too many crazy comments. One of them was pretty good about sharing why he was liberal, if you got him in a one-on-one conversation.

I suspect the left does the same thing.

Steve
Steve

Keep Trump under a constant cloud of suspicion with completely bogus charges so the insouciant ( thanks, PCR) public is less inclined to vote for him.
Is that election meddling?

EC
EC

Stevie, stop weeping on the couch, how the fuck is it meddling when you are a direct participant, didn’t your mom ever tell you all is fair in love and war?

Steve
Steve

Reading is fun. Maybe one day you’ll comprehend what you’re reading.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

I think it is called electioneering – a strategy for winning.

It is also known as death by 1,000 cuts.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

Dang…how much longer is the shit show gonna’ last ?

I keep buying ammo and stuff…waiting in anticipation .

Guess when it happens I’ll be to old to do a damn thing.

Mygirl...maybe

I’m approaching the point where the best I can do is sit on the porch with the shotgun and draw fire but if that’s what’s needed…..well then, so be it. I won’t give in and I won’t give up, pry it from my aging arthritic fingers and a big FU to the bastards…

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

SanFranNan will never allow a vote on impeachment, as it cannot be sustained in the Senate and will cost her the Speakership. She loves power more than revenge and knows she can stymie Trump as Speaker for 4 more years.

EC
EC

An impeachment is like an indictment, the trial comes after in the Senate. Impeachment isn’t the end. Nixon threw in the towel because he didn’t want to undergo a trial. Slick Willie had Hillary as counsel, adviser, she saved his ass because she already knew the mechanics of an impeachment.

nkit

It is unquestionable that Obama is the mastermind of the plans to overthrow Trump, but this article explains the lengths he went to and still is using Italy tyo frame Trump.

Spygate Update From Italy: Italian Occhionero Files Complaint – Says He’s Still Being Spied On

Miles Long
Miles Long

Wondering if this Russiagate/Ukraine/Stormy/etc. shitshow for the entire 1st term will be reversed by getting a do-over for said 1st term if all those secret indictments get used & all responsible get frog-marched in orange suits? Wouldn’t that piss off the leftys?

Yeah, I know… but one can still dream.

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