To Whom Do We Owe Our Freedom?

We owe everything to those who wear the uniform of the United States of America.  They number roughly 1.45 million out of a population of 330 million.

Are we helping them when we overthrow the Constitution they have been sworn to uphold since the days of George Washington?

We are steadily witnessing a government by lynch mobs of media and Trump-deranged civil servants who have abdicated their Oath of Office to overturn two elections, 2016 and 2020, and preen in front of TV cameras.  Mitt, can you hear me?  Susan? Lisa?

If it were an impeachable offense for the President to have policies which are not illegal but differ from those of Nancy Pelosi’s party, all Presidents would be immediately impeached and there would be nothing left but chaos.  So says constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz.  So says Jonathan Turley.

The bar for impeachment cannot be set this low.

Surely this is not the form of government our brave men and women serve.

White House Counsel Pat Cipollone began his closing argument Tuesday afternoon by playing clips of impeachment managers Jerry Nadler and Zoe Lofgren and Senators Bob Menendez and Chuck Schumer speaking about the abuse of impeachment during the Clinton impeachment proceedings.

When the clips ended, Cipollone said, “They’ve repeatedly said, over and over again, a quote from Benjamin Franklin; ‘It’s a republic, if you can keep it.’  And every time I heard it, I said to myself, it’s a republic if they let us keep it.”

He said it while looking directly at the sniveling Democrat impeachment managers.

Mitt Romney: A Perfect Foil In The Democrats’ Witch Hunt

Eight months before the presidential election of 2016 Romney gave a speech at the Hinckley Institute at the University of Utah torching then-candidate Trump.

Here are some pull-quotes.  You can read the full transcript here.

“…If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished.” 

[SKIP] 

“First, the economy: If Donald Trump’s plans were ever implemented, the country would sink into a prolonged recession.” 

[SKIP] 

“His proposed 35% tariff-like penalties would instigate a trade war that would raise prices for consumers, kill export jobs, and lead entrepreneurs and businesses to flee America. His tax plan, in combination with his refusal to reform entitlements and to honestly address spending would balloon the deficit and the national debt. So even as Donald Trump has offered very few specific economic plans, what little he has said is enough to know that he would be very bad for American workers and for American families.” 

[SKIP] 

“A person so untrustworthy and dishonest as Hillary Clinton must not become president. But a Trump nomination enables her victory.” 

[SKIP] 

“Here’s what I know. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He’s playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat.” 

“His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill.”

Mittens AKA Pierre Delecto spoke with Obama Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about becoming President Trump’s Secretary of State.

Twenty-one days after the 2016 election, President-elect Trump invited Pierre Delecto to dine with him at the Jean Georges Restaurant in Trump Tower.  They were there to discuss who he would pick as his Secretary of State.

Richie Duchon of NBC News characterized the meeting this way, “Trump made a spectacle of dining with Romney as he weighed his choice for Secretary of State, only to give the job to Rex Tillerson.”

To say Mittens, a treacherous RINO, is still bitter about being turned down for the job he begged for would be a monumental understatement.  I have concluded the sole reason he sought a seat in the Senate was to exact revenge for the humiliation of that dinner at the Jean Georges Restaurant.

Sen. Delecto (Romney) said Monday the revelations from the soon-to-be-released Bolton book make it “increasingly likely” he and three other wafflers would want to compel his testimony in the President’s Senate trial.

The well-coiffed patrician who rarely ventures beyond his gilded barricades to mix with the little people is intellectually incurious about Bolton’s intemperate allegations.  No one has seen the manuscript.  We only have the word, God help us, of the failing New York Times whose carefully orchestrated “leak” was timed to hurt the President during his impeachment trial.

This is treachery.

New York Times Having A Clearance Sale On 11th Hour Bombshells

Sunday night the failing New York Times published a “breaking news” report based on an unpublished manuscript of John Bolton’s new book wherein he alleges President Trump said he wanted to keep foreign aid to Ukraine “frozen until its officials helped him with investigations into Democrats.”

Riddle me this:  Is this an amazing coincidence or a strategically timed leak to aid the Democrats’ coup to remove this President?

Hours after the New York Times leaked a passage from the book “The Room Where It Happened” it popped up for pre-order on Amazon. The book’s arrival on Amazon came a day before the President’s lawyers resume their presentation of his defense in the Senate.

Bolton's "manuscript was transmitted to the White House for prepublication review by the National Security Council," said Bolton adviser Sarah Tinsley. "The ambassador has not passed the draft manuscript to anyone else. Period." Bolton's lawyer, Charles Cooper, said in a statement "it is clear, regrettably, from The New York Times article published Sunday that the prepublication review process has been corrupted and that information has been disclosed by persons other than those properly involved in reviewing the manuscript."

Adam Schiff and the Democrats quickly pounced claiming, “Having access to Bolton's manuscript may have given Trump's aides and lawyers direct insight into what Bolton would say if he were called to testify at the impeachment trial," and "it also intensified concerns among some of his advisers that they needed to block Mr. Bolton from testifying,” the NYT reports.

Meanwhile, Bolton associates tell told the paper he wants to testify because “he believes he has relevant information and he has also expressed concern that if his account of the Ukraine affair emerges only after the trial, he will be accused of holding back to increase his book sales.” 

.@SenJoniErnst:

How did the Obama Administration react to the invasion of Ukraine?

They reacted by sending blankets.

Blankets don't throw lead downrange.@realdonaldtrump provided lethal aid to the Ukrainian people—actually allowed them an opportunity to defend themselves. pic.twitter.com/rXPy5976We

— Senate Republicans (@SenateGOP) January 24, 2020

Democrat House Impeachment Managers keep talking about Ukraine security assistance.

Did they mention they voted NO on that assistance?

Nadler voted NO on FY20 NDAA (included $300M for Ukraine).

Nadler, Lofgren, & Jeffries voted NO on FY19 NDAA (included $250M for Ukraine).

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 24, 2020

Sen. Joni Ernst displaying her notes from Saturday's impeachment trial showing names of House Impeachment Managers who voted AGAINST aid to Ukraine.

UPDATE:  The plot sickens.

Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, a senior ethics lawyer for the National Security Council and identical twin brother of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, is in charge of reviewing all publications by current and former NSC officials and likely would have seen former NSC Advisor Bolton’s draft manuscript after it was submitted for prepublication at the end of December 2019.

UPDATE II:  Welcome readers of Whatfinger News.

How Did That Hole Get There?

Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment inquisitor, Adam Schiff, gave opening remarks on September 26, 2019 during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on the whistleblower complaint against President Trump as it pertained to his congratulatory phone call with Ukraine’s President Zelensky that did not square with the facts.

Schiff said in his opening statement, and in numerous TV interviews, that Trump had asked Zelensky to “make up” or “manufacture” dirt on Trump’s potential 2020 opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden. That is patently false. Trump asked Zelensky to investigate, not provide false information.

Here’s the transcript of his remarks:

“It reads like a classic organized crime shakedown. Shorn of its rambling character, and in not so many words, this is the essence of what the President communicates. ‘We’ve been very good to your country, very good. No other country has done as much as we have. But you know what? I don’t see much reciprocity here. I hear what you want. I have a favor I want from you though. And I’m going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good. I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand? Lots of it. On this and on that. I’m going to put you in touch with people, not just any people, I am going to put you in touch with the Attorney General of the United States, my Attorney General Bill Barr. He’s got the whole weight of the American law enforcement behind him. And I’m going to put you in touch with Rudy. You’re going to love him. Trust me. You know what I’m asking. And so I’m only going to say this a few more times. In a few more ways. And by the way, don’t call me again. I’ll call you when you’ve done what I asked.’” 

“This is in sum and character what the President was trying to communicate with the President of Ukraine. It would be funny if it wasn’t such a graphic betrayal of the President’s Oath of Office. But as it does represent a real betrayal, there’s nothing the President says here that is in America’s interest after all.”

Andrew McCarthy, who served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is currently a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Director of the FDD’s Center for Law and Counterterrorism and served as an adjunct professor at New York Law School and Fordham University School of Law recently opined, “Adam Schiff is a smart guy. He did not idly dream up a “make up dirt” parody. He framed it because he knows that’s the kind of misconduct you would need to prove to warrant impeachment and removal of a president. In fact, Schiff could never prove that, but he figured parody is good enough for 2020 campaign purposes—and that’s what this [impeachment] exercise is all about.”

That is the gigantic sinkhole the Democrats have fallen into and from which they cannot extricate themselves.  If collusion with Russia had been a fact rather than a flight of fancy, the votes to impeach President Trump would have been overwhelming and he would have had to resign.  We’d be talking about President Mike Pence’s upcoming State of the Union Address and the Democrats would be shitting skittles and rainbows rather than clambering to find someone to “take out Donald Trump.”