Sunday, February 2, 2020

Impeached Forever, Forever Damned



The House managers, led by the brilliant Adam Schiff, presented a powerful, informative, fact-laden case for removing Impeached tRUmp from the office he has abused and defiled.  It was so powerful, the evidence so compelling, that the Republicans' brazen vote against witnesses and documents, when 72% of Americans wanted witnesses like a real trial, has imploded the GOP. The  forthcoming acquittal will seal its doom. 

Schiff was eloquent, impassioned. He turned again and again to the principles on which America is founded, and urged Republicans to defend those principles. 

They did not. They did not defend our Constitution, they trampled on it, outright traitors to Rule of Law. We have before us, in essence, a massive cover up. All Republicans are in the loop. This cover up will unravel.

"We are totally coordinating with tRUmp.
Everything is coordinated with the White
House...He will never be removed."

The rigged trial is just the beginning. A rigged trial ends up with a rigged acquittal. It won't hold up for long.  

For a short-term 'win', McConnell and his Republican accomplices, who flamingly denied the truth and betrayed their Oaths. are heading to major long-term losses.  The cult base they've appealed to is dwindling. Principled Republicans are leaving the GOP in disgust. The American people know right from wrong. They know a rigged trial when they see one. It's the beginning of the end for Senate Republicans. History will swallow them up.

For me, the way tRUmp & his cabal got rid of Ambassador
Yovanovich represents the extent& depth of the abuse of power.


While these Republican traitors are campaigning for re-election, more evidence will continue to pour out bit by bit, up to November. We've already  learned, during the trial itself for heaven's sake, that tRUmp's lawyer Pat Cippoline is a fact-witness to the Ukraine scandal, an unbelievable shocking conflict that should end the trial. Can Schiff move for a mistrial? asks attorney and MSNBC legal commentator Glenn Kirschner. Another hypothetical dangles before us.

Meanwhile, we will hear more from Bolton. His statements are damning and his forthcoming book will be explosive. Lev Parnas and his indefatiguable lawyer Joe Bondy will put out their extensive evidence, which will be easily corroborated. "Everyone was in the loop." That includes Pence, Barr, Pompeo, the whole damn Cabinet and many agency heads like Mulvaney. Now there's a bunch of emails that have leaked out, damning emails that reflect communications between and among tRUmp and his immediate advisors about decision-making regarding the scope, duration and purpose of the hold on military assistance to Ukraine. Wait until those see the light of day!   


Add Pompeo, Rs like Nunes, a criminal
cabinet , & tRump's
impeachment attorney Pat Cippoloni.
among most other Republicans.
  So are McConnell &Republican enablers,
complicit in crimes against democracy &
a cover up the likes of which we've
never seen..
Payback is coming. A Blue Tsunami is expected in November to vote out these criminal Republicans. The "acquittal" of  the Forever Impeached by a jury rigged by Mitch McConnell, "the gravedigger of our democracy," will insure that we the people, the ultimate jury, will vote for the ultimate verdict: guilty as charged. 



*  Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, Jan 24,2020
"There is actually an obvious and possibly accurate defense that no Republican senator dare advance. It goes like this: "The president has never understood that there is a difference between his political/personal interests and national security. Trump has a narcissistic personality so he cannot intentionally betray the country for his own benefit because he thinks they are one and the same. He is also highly ignorant and malleable, so he will believe any illogical conspiracy theory that Russian President Vladimir Putin advances and/or that serves his interests. No matter how many times he was told that Ukraine did not interfere with our election, or that aid to Ukraine was in the United States’ interest, or that he could not stop aid in violation of law, he could not mentally process such information. He believed that advisers who told him such things were weak or out to get him. In other words, Trump is so mentally and emotionally defective, he cannot understand the import of his actions or concepts such as right vs. wrong, true vs. false and personal vs. national interests. As for obstruction, his lawyer told him to refuse to give up anything, so he simply took that advice."


*  https://news.yahoo.com/trump-administration-wont-release-emails-205608561.html "The
Trump administration is blocking two dozen documents containing emails on President Donald Trump's involvement in the decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine, the government said in court filings./Justice Department and Office of Management and Budget attorneys acknowledged in the late Friday night filings the existence of emails explaining the president's thinking about withholding about $400 million in Ukraine aid. Hours earlier, the Senate voted largely along party lines to not call witnesses in the impeachment trial...Specifically, the documents ... are emails that reflect communications by either the President, the Vice President, or the President’s immediate advisors regarding Presidential decision-making about the scope, duration, and purpose of the hold on military assistance to Ukraine," said Heather Walsh, deputy general counsel for the Office of Management and Budget."

*  Glenn Kirshner, attorney and MSNBC legal commentator, has a great suggestion: “Cipollone perpetrated a unimaginable fraud on the Senate and the American people and the Dems should not go quietly into that dark acquittal. Move for a mistrial and see what the Chief Justice says.”

1 comment:

Kristina Melnichenko said...

That the quote from Jennifer Rubin, about how trump can't differentiate between himself and the country, his lawyer did make that argument five days after she said that- on Jan 29- arguing that as long as trump believes his reelection is in the national interest, anything he does to ensure that victory is thus in the national interest. Couldn't quite believe that when I heard it, crazier still to see that it was laughed about as a non-defense days beforehand. It has been very disheartening to see how quickly the unacceptable can become normal.

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