Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
It seems like the Democrats have been trying to figure out a way to remove Donald Trump from office forever. Trump was under investigation even before he won the election, and it has literally been a miracle that his presidency has been able to survive for as long as it has. But now the Democrats think that they have finally got him. A parade of witnesses has come forward testifying that Trump pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son, and that Trump withheld key military aid from Ukraine as leverage. Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and other top Democrats believe that this constitutes an “abuse of power”, and that this “abuse of power” qualifies as a “high crime or misdemeanor”.
Other than Fox News, the mainstream media is solidly behind the Democrats on this, and we have seen a shift in public opinion polls in favor of impeachment. Many conservatives continue to doubt that an impeachment trial will actually happen, but Nancy Pelosi would have never let things get this far if she didn’t know for sure that she has the votes that she needs to impeach Trump in the House. At this point, it appears extremely likely that Trump will be impeached, and that will set up a historic trial in the U.S. Senate.
On Tuesday, House impeachment investigators will hear testimony from Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, and according to a draft of his opening statement he plans to tell them that he notified his superiors twice regarding his concerns that military aid to Ukraine was being withheld in order to pressure the Ukrainians to investigate the Bidens…
The White House’s top expert on Ukraine twice notified superiors about concerns that the president and those working for him were linking foreign aid to Ukraine with investigations that would help President Donald Trump politically, a push that he said could undermine U.S. national security, according to an opening statement obtained by USA TODAY.
The testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman before the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight committees Tuesday will mark the first time lawmakers investigating the impeachment inquiry will hear from someone who listened to Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — the call at the center of the impeachment investigation that included a Trump’s request that Ukraine investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
This is likely to be bombshell testimony, but the American public won’t get a chance to hear from Vindman firsthand because the Democrats made a critical strategic mistake.
At the outset of this process, the Democrats decided to keep the proceedings shielded from the American public. This has opened them up to tremendous criticism from Republicans, and it has resulted in them missing opportunity after opportunity to move public opinion more dramatically.
For the past month, the Democrats have looked like they are trying to hide what they are doing, and the process has been deeply unfair to President Trump.
Finally realizing that they have massively screwed up, the Democrats now plan to hold a vote in the House later this week that will make the next phase of the impeachment inquiry more open to the public. In a letter to her fellow Democrats in the House, Nancy Pelosi explained why this move is being made at this time. The following is an excerpt from her letter…
This week, we will bring a resolution to the Floor that affirms the ongoing, existing investigation that is currently being conducted by our committees as part of this impeachment inquiry, including all requests for documents, subpoenas for records and testimony, and any other investigative steps previously taken or to be taken as part of this investigation. This resolution establishes the procedure for hearings that are open to the American people, authorizes the disclosure of deposition transcripts, outlines procedures to transfer evidence to the Judiciary Committee as it considers potential articles of impeachment, and sets forth due process rights for the President and his Counsel.
‘We are taking this step to eliminate any doubt as to whether the Trump Administration may withhold documents, prevent witness testimony, disregard duly authorized subpoenas, or continue obstructing the House of Representatives.
If the Democrats are going to be successful, they need to get somewhere around 60 percent of all Americans on their side, because it is at that level where certain Republicans in the U.S. Senate would feel comfortable betraying Trump.
In order to do that, the Democrats desperately need to get these proceedings on television, and this resolution will finally authorize that.
But will this be a case of too little, too late?
We shall see.
Ultimately, the Democrats never should have gone down this road, and even if everything they are alleging is true there is nothing that Trump has done that represents a “high crime or misdemeanor”.
And with Republicans in control of the U.S. Senate, you would think that Trump should be feeling quite safe.
Unfortunately, so far only seven Republicans have publicly stated that they have ruled out removing Trump from office, and most Republican Senators are purposely refusing to take any sort of a public stand. Here are a few examples…
- Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho): “I’m a juror and I’m comfortable not speaking.”
- Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.): “I’d be a juror, so I have no comment.”
- Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.): “I don’t need a strategy for impeachment because I may be a juror someday.”
- Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine): “I am very likely to be a juror so to make a predetermined decision on whether or not to convict a president of the United States does not fulfill one’s constitutional responsibilities.”
So much for loyalty. President Trump recently endorsed Senator Risch, and this is how he is repaying Trump?
If the Republicans in the Senate came together and released a public statement in which they pledged not to remove Trump from office, that would immediately suck all the life out of the impeachment process.
But they are not going to do that. In fact, there are persistent rumors that quite a few Republican Senators are ready to stab Trump in the back.
Whether you support Donald Trump or not, the truth is that every American should be deeply alarmed by what is happening in Washington right now. In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville warned us that this might happen someday: “A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.”
The scenario that he warned about is playing out right in front of us, and if Donald Trump is removed from office it is going to cause irreparable damage to our system of government.
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Forget “irreparable damage” and think “Civil War”.
There aren’t any “public morals”, there are aggregated individual private moral, and the behavior that reveal those morals. We live in a time when radical individualism is encouraged so that we are all separate, unaffiliated, and easily defeated and enslaved. Republican Senators hate Trump, largely because Trump calls on the fealty of the proles. The Repub senators HATE the working Amerians. Working Americans stick together a lot more than the rest of the old USA, so they need to be brought to heel. Trump will be impeached by the House, and conviction in the Senate is at least very possible, if not likely.
Everybody in Washington is of low charachter, and HATES Trump. Stopping impeachment will be done only in the streets, not in the Capital or the courts.
So then Trump just runs again in 2020 after Impeachment and a welcomed (engineered?) leave of absence.
The Trump base is obviously desperate for a hero, so they’ll VOTE HARDER this time!
A kangaroo court will be needed to remove Trump.
Romney looks like a kangaroo.
Let’s say the liberals Impeach Trump and the RINOs in the Senate prepare to convict him in a Kangaroo Court around New Years but the Farmers pledge not to plant a crop in the Spring if they do. How long will crooked Washington politicians and the NYC MSM be calling all the shots if the Useful Idiots realize it would mean they will starve?
Or millions of normals decide to John Galt the system and stop buying. Or delay their tax returns until Oct 15 instead of April 15 starve the machine. If that doesn’t work then it will be spicy time. Seems the mature ones in the room are the normals with tax paying jobs. And they are seemingly very patient. Everyone and every group has their breaking point though.
1. Why was Vindman listening in on the call? Motive? Gotcha!
2. Why must the USA continue funding to Ukraine? Skimming?
3. Is Vindman in cahoots with former SEAL and retired Admiral McCraven, who torched DJT in a NYT op-ed, and still seated on the board of various organizations that care nothing about the debt liabilities of the U.S.?
4. Gather up enough moles infesting high levels of power, and they’ll gladly testify to impeach the threat to the cash grabbing ways of those pushing a progressive NWO, under the guise of humanitarianism, while preserving the status quo.
Their numbers are frightening.
5. Curious, that threats of sedition and treason are counter to that exact risk and accusation being assembled toward Schiff, Pelosi, Brennan, Comey, Clapper , McCabe, Obumma, ad infinitum, with calls on both sides for the death penalty as punishment.
There’s a war going on alright.
Right here in our back yard.
And Michael, do you really think the enlightened pay any attention to opinion polls?
Find the quote from a long ranking member of CONgress, telling a younger newbie:
“Son, go ahead with calls for more fiscal conservation in Federal spending. But don’t fuck with my money.”
Follow the money, and
Let not the narrative deceive you.
Things are heating up.
Prepare accordingly.
Good spot for this.
He has even more curious details about the Dems latest star witness Vindman.
Skip the ads, and stay with it.
It’s worth the time, unless wallowing in hopeless gloom & despair is preferred.
https://youtu.be/tFnuEcEcNaw
If it’s not rigged in Trumps favor, I am embarrassed for the Dem’s, hell Im embarrassed for them either way. I swear this is the sunset of their entire party, with some sort of rebirth into Neo-bolshevik Communists to occur.
That said, the no spine republicans that groveled before these retards for the last 8 years represent a new class of political cuckold, far beyond embarrassing, horrifying.
The no spine Republicans are Dems parading as Republicans….. They are all filth and scum…..
Sounds to me like he’s a Ukrainian mole.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=237214
Spot on, Art. Good find.
Yes, a ‘patriotic’ mole for nefarious shit going on with Ukraine, pre-Trump.
Now the Dems trot this guy out, wearing a decorated military uniform, spouting duty, loyalty to country, who disapproves of how the POTUS and Rudy are talking to Ukraine about past corruption.
He has national security clearance, and is neck deep in the bullshit, while pointing at Trump.
Compromised, from the Obama Biden years.
Watch for pushback.
These people are stupid.
Vindfuck is a DFJ…..
And a Jewish one at that. Seeing as the biggest pushers for impeachment are Jews, I think the country needs to finally come to the conclusion that the Jews and Israel are not our friends, but our evil enemies. There really is no other way to put it.
McChrystal is a scumbag and should be indicted and have his pension taken while he sits in prison the rest of his life. No way was his so called service to this country in any way honorable……
let me get this straight.the dems sole hope for any chance of putting trump out in the streetrest on some interpatation of a phone call to another foreign leader that has already been clearly demonstrated to be quite legal and above board.do i have this right? see you in 2020 mr. trump.
If Trump wants to get reelected, here’s the short speech he needs to give:
Nancy – go f*** yourself.
Schiff – go f*** yourself.
Corporate media – go f*** yourself.
Yes, Trump panders to his base with meaningless talk and promises, and in doing so, misdirects people anger away from where it really should be.
As an anarchist, I could care less who wins an election. They all suck. However, the left is so out of control that they deserve special resentment.
Where should our attention be in your opinion?
Women are to blame for most of it.
The Left carries it’s banner openly.
The traitors and plants on the Right do not.
A murderer in the night is less to be feared.
Every single politician including those currently running for pres now does the same damn thing. Hello.
I thought his comments regarding SanFranNan and Schifforbrains not being trustworthy with info on the Baghdadi raid was a pretty good F-U to both of them.
Picture Trump at some rally or standing behind a lectern and uttering the phrase I suggested exactly as I wrote it.
The Internet would roar with both laughter and indignation.
It would confirm for the left that Trump is a boor and unsophisticated cretin worthy of impeachment or possibly crucifixion. For his base and for people that either were part of his base or are fence sitters, it would swing them in his favor simply because he stated OUT LOUD what they themselves murmur.
One of the reasons I voted for Trump is because he was saying things I have been saying for many years, and he is still saying them to their faces.
How the FBI Ran an Illegal Counterintelligence Masquerade in Plot to Get Trump
Obama ordered the Trump attack obviously through Brennan and pals, and the compliant controlled media was happy to get in line.
Brennan now a talking head at CNN is coincidence? Sedition and Treason. Why all the criminals are lawyering up, Barr and Durham laying ground work.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/28/how-the-obama-administration-set-in-motion-democrats-coup-against-trump/
Nyet!
Treason and sedition is a meaningless, hollow charge in the absence of the fully functioning Rule of Law.
When there is no rule of law, the best you can do is a drum-head courts martial, which is the correct course of action here- against both Trump and against all the clowns pretending to oppose him.
the barr stuff cant get out soon enough.when the people, the ones that vote anyway, see what went on to bring down an elected president the dems are done.they dont have a candidate to run against trump anyway.
The Dems say Trump wanted the Ukies to “dig up dirt on his political opponent”.
Hey, if Biden and his son didn’t act corruptly, they had nothing to worry about, right?
Classic!
Mueller must have taught him that line.
Successful impeachment…..not gonna happen. The Dems are too dimwitted as well as liars, crooks and thieves. They have taken two swings and have had two strikes. The impeachment farce will be a strike out for them. The best they can hope for will be in forcing Trump to show his tax returns through supeona action.
The street level Dems are dimwitted, but don’t fool yourself, the higher level Dems know exactly what they’re doing.
This isn’t about “loyalty”. This is about our constitution, due process, and the rule of law. These are things the Democrats have betrayed. This is nothing less than an attempt at a coup to remove a sitting, constitutionally elected president. If the system does not take care of this farce, we the people will.
I am addressing this to all you MILI-TARD’ lovers out there…
I want you to take a look at this link that is currently on Drudge’s site:
Army Officer Who Heard Trump’s Ukraine Call Reported Concerns
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/army-officer-on-white-house-staff-reported-concerns-on-trumps-ukraine-dealings/ar-AAJuZ02
Hannity, Mark Levin, Don Bongino and the rest of these talking heads in the conservative media have been peddling us all a load of shite in saying that the rot of the ‘deep state’ is only a few people at the top of the alphabet agencies.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!
The shite-stains actually occupy perhaps 50% or more of the government parasites, on the government payrolls of all types, including the military.
These pieces of shite are literally everywhere in our government as evidenced by this ‘mili-tard’ army officers who is obviously a plant and spy who was just laying in the tall grass waiting to strike.
Even if Barr perp-walks all the heads of the alphabet agencies, there still will be thousands of conspirators out there on the government payroll, all working overtime to turn this country into a tyranny.
Wrap your skulls around this fact please.
The swamp is too big to drain for one man.
That’s why any thinking person knew it was an empty promise from the get go!
Thank you sir!!!
Perp walks and leg irons would indeed be a meaningless gesture at this point, only intended to further stall and distract from the relentless march toward November 2020!
Now it all becomes clear how this setup is being staged with this so-called “whistleblower” who is in fact a military officer who says he is not the ‘whistleblower.’
Yeah-right.
Now they are trotting out some fat-fuk, half-bird Army colonel who is appearing in his uniform–and they are wrapping him up in the flag, his so-called sand-box service and his uniform so that no one can criticize some goof-ball in uniform.
I have to point out that many people who have been in uniform have been traitors to this country–let’s go back to the first being ‘Benidict Arnold’ and progressing through many mili-tards who out-right defected to our enemies to scum acting as spies.
The whole fucking higher echelons of our military services are infiltrated and poisoned by these globalist zipper-heads and scum.
“Our military” so you’re not a foreigner?
Got any intelligence and/or military experience?
Few people without it can be so absolutely spot on with this stuff.
Good grief MSN is building up that chair-warmer Colonel.
I bet his Purple Heart is fake as fuck.
I even moonlighted doing awards in a combat unit, so believe me, I’ve seen some fake awards in my time.
What did I say earlier?
Take a look at this…
‘He’s a patriot’: Republicans defend key impeachment witness from attacks
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/29/republicans-defend-impeachment-witness-vindman-061057
He’s a ‘patriot’ –you’re shitting me right?!
He’s a walking fuk-stain in an army uniform.
A uniform makes him a patriot and a hero?
You’re shitting me right?
Rivera on Hannity tonite was defending him against Bongino who saw through the whole sham–you should have seen him shout Rivera down with the truth.
This army clown is just another government paid PARASITE who cannot function in a real job on the outside of the military.
I will be you all a steak dinner that this fool has ‘juice’ lined up on the outside once he retires. I will be you that bags of cash, promises to put his kids in colleges tuition free, book deals and gold coin collections are on the way to him.
This is how it is done.
Wrap your skulls around this please.
I will be you he gives rusty trombones to Brenner in the green room of NBC.
I will bet you any amount of money he is a CIA shite-stain operative.
Don’t let the hero horse-shite fool you.
Don’t let the uniform get in the way of seeing the truth.
He is a Jew so the statement about bags of gold and cash are probably true……
My experience has led me to distrust any and all CIA employees and contractors as a rule of thumb. Especially when it’s obvious to those with experience that they are lying about who their employer is.
Just a thought. Bright, shining rays of sun cure a lot.
I bet it is too. I bet he had a fellow Jew write up the award to make look special…….
He is a DFJ and nothing more and don’t forget that fact. He wears the uniform for a paycheck and to cultivate greed with his fellow DFJs in government……
They know they will fail and trump is protected by the marines and they need soldiers to be compromised and untrusted. Thats why he was paraded in full uniform. They know they will need the blue hats for their take over.
I have been saying for a long time that the military is full of leftist scumbags, high and low……. No mercy or honor should be given these people.
The rush by the Demo rats is to attempt to get ahead of Durham and Barr, IMHO.
Obama ordered the Trump attack obviously through Brennan and pals, and the compliant controlled media was happy to get in line.
Brennan now a talking head at CNN is coincidence? Sedition and Treason. Why all the criminals are lawyering up, Barr and Durham laying ground work.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/28/how-the-obama-administration-set-in-motion-democrats-coup-against-trump/
Rooftop voting on the way.
Voting from the rooftop!
I watched “I am Wrath” the other day.
I was avoiding it because I figured it had a dark, ugly underbelly.
I wonder how many shekels Travolta got for that crap.
It’s thinly-veiled clarion call to [gun] violence against [local] politicians and police.
I’ll leave it up to you to check out the folks backing the movie and movies like it.
Excuse me folks, but FUCK OFF SNYDER.
Stop adding to the contrived, theatrical #resistance and #impeachment drama.
Only street level nobodies are resisting Trump on the Left. Everyone high level enough to matter is just playing to their base and waiting for their turn in power, which is coming sooner or later.
Tiresome bullshit. Until some of these corrupt swamp critters, Democrat or Republican (or both,) are led away in cuffs, convicted and sent to prison, I’m going to keep on assuming that every bit of this drama is just theater to keep the proles on the edge of their seats in the 2-party plantation. Prove me wrong, Q.
Q is a Psyop and Drumpf is lead actor.
Impeachment is not going to happen. Apparently, ANY theater is better than no theater at all. Trump has said many time “we have it all”, and he does. The rats are running from a sinking ship. Sit back, watch.
Embarrassing.
Vindman, and I would not call him an honorable veteran by any stretch of the imagination, is just part of the Jewish conspiracy in this country to overthrow a democratically elected president in a coup. He is a transplant from Ukraine and hopefully he will be dealt with by the good powers that be.
Yes we should hang all the Democrats as they do this same thing every time there is a Republican elected president into Office this is a re-occurrence every last time and no one stops them from the same old BS when they are wasting millions and disrupting the simple time Republicans have for making America Grate again as the democrats want to destroy America and bring us all down to their level of one class of people a class that which the International community wants, a One World Order which is a violation of our constitution-making the democrats each and all together a violation against their oath taken when becoming a representative of America making each of them a terrorist which should be Hung each and every Democratic fool of our country, they in my eyes are getting old and should never win any other election on standing, if a promise is made you keep that promised ad remember this we are Americans and you violate our space you violate your rights to exist in this world as we know it today!
They are speed bumps when repubs are in charge and they get in charge and the beta male cucked repubs do whatever the dems want. Trump was their speed bump this time. The only movement is to the left and stalls when repubs win. Thats all. Every time.
I see a day soon coming when the avg man applies his run for office to replace those rinos. It will be epidemic to the old laws of politics. Farmer Bob will hold his own against the powerful rinos. Just watch.
de Tocqueville didn’t say that.
Before you quote people whose writings you’ve never actually read for yourself, you should check your sourcing. At least run a Google check for hoaxes.
this is garbage
lets get to the election so we can get a new republican house and get something meaningful done for our country