By Florida Bill
Stumbling and slurring her words, sanctimonious Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues on her ill-fated mission to bring down the nation's duly elected 45th President. But, she says that she still "prays for him."
Standing with Pelosi are her malleable point men in the House of Representatives--- the bug-eyed lying machine, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, and the hypocrite of record, "Fat Jerry" Nadler of New York. Also out front in the impeachment effort are the screaming Trump-hater, Mad Maxine Waters and the flatulence-afflicted and mouthy Eric Swalwell, a Pelosi comrade from California.
Every Democrat in the Democrat- controlled House, except for three, voted in favor of impeachment, and every Republican, joined by the errant Democrats, voted against impeachment. Shamefully, it was the most partisan act for impeachment in the history of the republic.
The case against the the President is contained in two feeble Articles of Impeachment. One accuses the President of pressuring the president of Ukraine to do his (Trump's) bidding or suffer the loss of about $400 million in U.S. foreign aid; and the second Article asserts that the President abused his office by obstructing congress in its oversight duties.
The alleged Ukraine wrongdoing is a fantasy created by Democrats driven not by a duty to country, but because of a basic dislike and even raw hate for Republican Donald Trump who belittled, ran over and defeated Hillary Clinton for the high office three years ago.
In neither article did the Democrats articulate and point to a crime committed by the President, or to any conduct in violation of a federal statute. In Article Two, House accusers alleged that the President thumbed his nose at Congress by declining to respond to subpoenas for documents from Trump or from members of his family, friends and administration, worded so as to invent something to show criminal behavior.
The inanity of Article Two is blind to the fact that the constitution empowers the President to exert executive privilege as a right, and if his detractors wish to prevail with their subpoenas, they must seek resolution from the federal court. Pelosi's Democrats did not exercise that option, and the result is that Trump's order to ignore the subpoenas as part of a "hoax" and a phony "witch hunt" stands unchallenged.
Article one accuses the President of pressuring President Zelensky of Ukraine to do his (Trump's) bidding and investigate former Vice President Biden and Biden's cocaine- addicted son, Hunter, or suffer the loss of $400 million in USA foreign aid. The allegation is grounded on a July 25, 2019, telephone call which Trump made to the Ukraine president and became the subject of a so-called "Whistle Blower" complaint by an intelligence officer in the state department who was a close friend of former Vice President Biden.
Despite weeks of hyping, and a televised House "inquiry" supervised by the disingenuous Schiff, an actual transcript of the call was released for public consumption by Trump and it showed that there was no "pressuring" spoken or insinuated by him. The Democrat charge of a Trump "quid pro quo" went up in flames totally when the Ukraine president held a news conference in which he praised President Trump and confirmed that there was no "pressuring" of him and that he was unaware that millions in foreign aid had any relevance to the conversation.
It would seem that Pelosi Democrats with a moral compass would have dropped the matter upon hearing from the Ukraine president, but they did not and instead disgraced themselves further by passing off to the "never Trump" media allegations that President Trump was guilty of "bribery" and "extortion," and then delighted as the false allegations were repeated on CNN, NBC and other Trump-hating stations.
Pursuant to the Constitution, the voted Articles of Impeachment must be delivered to the Senate so that a trial can be held on the charges. But the misguided, teary-eyed Pelosi has elected instead to sit on the articles with a demand that she have a say in how the Senate proceeds with the trial of President Trump. She said that she would do nothing with the articles and accusations until later in January after congressmen return from celebration of the holidays.
The constitution, along with abundant case law, gives to the Senate, the upper house of Congress, the total and sole authority in how an impeachment trial is to be conducted. The House has no voice in determining the rules for the trial. There may or may not be witnesses testifying other than by those whose testimony during the "inquiry"powered the Articles of Impeachment.
President Trump has said that he favors a full trial in which his defenders would bring on witnesses to testify; and that those witnesses should include former Vice President Biden and his cocaine addicted son Hunter, who the President has called "stone-faced corrupt." Other witnesses, urged by the President and Republican congressmen, should include the Whistle blowing friend of Biden's, and fact witnesses, to include Adam Schiff who allegedly counseled the whistle blower and and may have actually composed the formal complaint which was filed.
The Senate would also have the option of examining the articles from a legal position, and could simply dismiss them for their failure to state a cause of action. If there is a trial, a finding of guilty would require a yes vote by two-thirds of the sitting 100 senators.
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