2019 Impeachment Inquiry Investigation Coup Attempt

I put the year because I am assuming another coup attempt will follow the current attempt.

This is my attempt to sort through the clutter and make sense of what is going on in Congress these days regarding whether or not formal Articles of Impeachment will be approved by a majority of the House of Representatives.

CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution states that the House of Representatives, “… shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.”

Article 1, Section 3 of the United States Constitution states that the Senate, “… shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.” and , “… no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the members present.”

IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES

There is no clear definition that I can find for high crimes and misdemeanors. Essentially, an impeachable offense need not be a crime and all crimes are not impeachable offenses. We are to trust the House of Representatives to define what is an impeachable offense and if a majority agree that a specific act is an impeachable offense, then formal Articles of Impeachment will pass and be sent to the Senate for trial.

There is agreement and precedent that the impeachable act must occur while in office. If you rob a bank prior to taking office, it may result in criminal charges, but it is not an impeachable offense. How about that?

OPINION

My first takeaway is that when talking heads and news media starting talking up the idea of impeachment within days of the 2016 presidential election, they were either completely ignorant of what impeachment is and how it works, or they knew and they didn’t care. See the tweet above written by the attorney for the alleged whistle blower that began the current round of impeachment fervor among the brainwashed masses.

It is safe to say that a good portion of the country suffers from what some refer to as Trump Derangement Syndrome. So much of the news media has been on a full-court press against Donald Trump since before the 2016 election that it is obvious that there is swamp (deep state, shadow government, etc.) and we are watching in real-time as more and more people wake up to this reality.

My second takeaway is that when HONORABLE Representative Adam Schiff read into the Congressional Record the contents of a phone call that doesn’t exist, any person with any intelligence at all would think to themselves, “If Donald Trump did something wrong on that phone call with the Ukrainian president, why not just read the transcript of the actual phone call?” For me, that was all the proof I needed that Schiff will make anything and do anything to get President Trump removed from office.

If you have only heard about what was said on that phone call, please do yourself a favor and read the transcript for yourself. What Adam Schiff read in this video beginning at 4:15 was pure fiction. He is not defending our democracy. He is making a mockery of it. If you think you see any quid pro quo in that transcript, I would love to hear from you. I’m not a lawyer, but I haven’ been able to figure out what this entire impeachment inquiry is about.

If you want to see a document that does include quid pro quo, read this document.

https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/5-4-18%20Menendez%20joint%20letter%20to%20General%20Prosecutor%20of%20Ukraine%20on%20Mueller%20investigation.pdf

I will be very surprised if this comical impeachment inquiry results in formal Articles of Impeachment being sent to the Senate.

I am not surprised at the political theater that we are being subjected to. For sure, this will convince some people to not vote for Donald Trump in 2020 and/or to get and vote for someone else.

They think the American people are stupid and will fall for this. Sadly, that is true of some. I believe I can at least see the difference between political theater and a real government executing the will of the people.

I have spoken with many people about this and too many of them simply aren’t aware that we live in a world where truly evil people are in charge. They project the goodness inherent in themselves onto other people who are not worthy of that projection.

I believe that we are going to see criminal charges for people from “No Scandals” Obama presidency and that what we are watching, in real-time, is guilty people who know that justice is on their doorstep and their only way out is to remove President Trump from office and install someone that will sweep their crimes under the rug.

Hillary Clinton was supposed to be that person. She’s not. She never will be. They are desperate for someone.

Pop your popcorn. This is going to be a good show.

RS

You Have The Right To Remain Silent, John Brennan

This should be fun. Enjoy!

A Washington Post Lie Exposed by RS

I woke up to this headline this morning about how President Trump lambasted John Brennan on Twitter. But, that’s not the whole story, which you find out if you read the article. Yes, Washington Post briefly took the time to tell the whole story, but highlighted the parts they really want you to know and they suppressed the parts they want you to miss out on.

The article quickly tells the first part of the story where President Trump states that he will officially demand that the DOJ investigate to find out if the FBI/DOJ were weaponized against a presidential campaign and if those working on the Barack Obama administration were involved. You know. Just asking a question. If that didn’t happen, it’s cool. But, I’d like to have someone look into this to make sure that nobody abused their power and attempted to affect an American election.

Because, that’s what we’re all afraid of, right? Anybody who ever went to Russia, spoke with a Russian, or ordered Russian salad dressing is now said to “have ties” with Russia and we investigate every one of them to make sure nobody affected the 2016 American election.

So, President Trump officially requests an investigation. It’s something a President is allowed to do. Nothing to see here, quite honestly, if you are an objective observer or a professional journalist.

Then the meat of the story is quickly blurted out with no screen shots. We just want to maintain that we did tell the whole story while we suppress the part we don’t want you to know because that’s how we roll at the former news organization, The Washington Post.

Since it was suppressed by John Wagner, I’ll highlight it here to assist John Wagner in his journalistic endeavor. Here is the story John Wagner wants you to believe.

Just hours before his planned attendance at the swearing in of a new CIA director, President Trump went on Twitter on Monday to castigate a former leader of the agency, posting that John Brennan “has disgraced the Country.”

On Sunday, he (John Brennan) wrote on Twitter that Trump was on a “disastrous path” and that Republican congressional leaders would bear responsibility for the “harm done to our democracy” if they did not intervene.

See the story? President Trump tweeted that John Brennan “has disgraced the country”. Do you see the words there in his tweet? I don’t, but John Wagner does. Taking what was actually said and then exaggerating it to influence the reader’s thoughts.

Strike one, @WPJohnWagner.

Then in response, John Brennan defends himself against President Trump and sends warnings to Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan.

See the story? John Brennan is really a good guy that is truly concerned about the country. He has thought this through and has a profound understanding of the Constitution and the concepts this country was founded on and he reaches out to Congressional leaders. You see it? I don’t.

What I see is a mafia thug warning two congressional leaders that they will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. Is that something a private citizen does? Is the Secret Service looking into this? That’s the story.

Strike two, @WPJohnWagner.

That part of the story was suppressed and fabricated, which are the two reasons you don’t see screenshots during this part of the Washington Post article. Because it’s a lie. It is a fact that if you say something untrue, but you truly believe it at the time, you have not lied. A lie is defined as something that you say that is untrue and you know it to be untrue at the time you say it. That’s what is happening here. A so-called journalist is telling us a LIE. He knows it and he is covering that up by not including screenshots to back up his lie.

Strike three, @WPJohnWagner.

Then the story goes on to tell the truth for a little while and prove it with screenshots that show that President Trump did indeed lambaste John Brennan. He sure did.

Now, I would love to stop right there. I’m a lifelong baseball fan and three strikes sends the batter to the dugout to beat up a water cooler or find his glove and get ready to take the field.

But, there’s something else going on here. Let’s look at the order of events used by @WPJohnWagner as he tells his lie.

  1. President Trump tweets that Brennan has “disgraced the country”. (Again, he didn’t do that)
  2. President Trump tweeted that he will request an official DOJ investigation into potential abuses of power in the Obama administration.
  3. John Brennan warned Congressional leaders that bear major responsibility for harm done to our democracy.
  4. President Trump lambasted John Brennan on Twitter.

Now, let’s look at the correct order of events.

  1. President Trump tweeted that he will request an official DOJ investigation into potential abuses of power in the Obama administration.
  2. John Brennan warned Congressional leaders that bear major responsibility for harm done to our democracy.
  3. President Trump tweets that Brennan has “disgraced the country”. (Again, he didn’t do that)
  4. President Trump lambasted John Brennan on Twitter.

So, from the headline, we are to believe that President Trump lambasted poor little John Brennan and that poor little John Brennan had no choice but to reach out to Congressional leaders to protect our democracy from President Trump.

But, the story is that the President is going to request a DOJ investigation and John Brennan is a private citizen and a thug who sends warnings to Congressional leaders, in public, instead of exercising his right to remain silent given the charges of perjury and worse that he is facing. He’s scared and lashing out, which is what a rodent does when it’s trapped in a corner.

So, John Brennan, you have have done more to destroy our democracy, on purpose, than almost anybody of whom I am aware. There’s quite a list in my book, but you are very close to the top of that list.

John Brennan, you are the first member of Remain Silent’s Most Wanted.

You have the right to remain silent, John Brennan.

I’m a baseball purist, but I have to break with tradition and do this.

Strike four, @WPJohnWagner.

Your headline only matches the lie.
You suppressed the facts you don’t like.
You stated that President Trump tweeted something that he did not tweet.
You failed to provide screenshots for the part of the story that is a lie.
You told the story in the wrong order to make President Trump appear to be the aggressor and John Brennan the innocent victim.

Wait. That’s five.

RS