Jim Bratten
At 11:59 a.m. on January 20, 2017, president-elect Donald Trump took the oath of office as the 45th President of the United States. Less than ten minutes later, Democrats talked of his impeachment.
Shortly after he was sworn in that day, this appeared in the Washington Post: “The campaign to impeach the president has begun.” That “news” release happened mere minutes after Trump took the oath.
Since then, through 22 months of the Mueller Report and several other lesser attempts at destroying Trump’s connection with his base and slandering his name and that of his family, Democrats have been unrelenting in their impeachment efforts.
On the morning of December 10, 2019 articles of impeachment were delivered to the House Judiciary Committee. The articles were voted upon by the committee members on December 13, and this week, as early as December 18, a floor vote by the entire House could deliver the impeachment Christmas present Democrats have promised their radical activist base since 2017.
Last Friday morning, Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) of the House Judicial Committee announced that his committee had “voted articles of impeachment against the president.” As a daily Democrat talking point, Nadler again repeated the words as he addressed the two articles of impeachment: “No one is above the law.”
Democrats had settled on roughly four “impeachable offenses” against Trump: abuse of power, bribery, contempt of Congress, and obstruction of justice. They could prove none of those accusations. In desperation, they settled on two accusations: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress (the last a hybrid of two of the four on their list – contempt of Congress and obstruction of justice). Neither of those justifies impeachment because they aren’t crimes. And “obstruction of Congress” cannot be used since half of Congress – the Senate – hasn’t reviewed the articles yet. Instead of being described as “official” articles of impeachment, these should be called “artificial” articles of impeachment.
But it’s not just faux impeachment scams to unseat the president, or the intentional application of violence in cities and on college campuses across the nation in the Democrats’ defiance of law. There was an effort in one state to keep Trump from appearing on the ballot.
California recently passed a law that targeted President Trump to stop him (or any other presidential candidate) from appearing on a California ballot. If the candidate did not release tax returns for the previous five years, making them public, they could not be listed on the state’s ballot. Fortunately, Judicial Watch sued in court and stopped California’s “Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act” from interfering in the 2020 election, since a state cannot override federal election law.
As described by Jordan Sekulow of the ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice), “The Left is criminalizing the execution of the Constitution… What we’re seeing today is, without a doubt, a shredding of the Constitution… This entire impeachment inquiry… is not only absurd constitutionally but profoundly dangerous to our republic.”
It was a bad week; bad for Democrats, bad for the media, and particularly bad for our Constitution and our political system. It was also bad for public perception of the integrity of Congress.
“The systematic shredding of the Constitution and the undermining of the rule of law,” is how Attorney General William Barr recently described the purpose of the Democrats’ scorched-earth policy of “resistance” – including faux impeachment.
Any action to nullify an election is legal to Democrats, since they don’t abide by laws. If they didn’t win, those who voted against them must be punished and the election results nullified. Welcome to Joseph Stalin 2.0 – in America, 2019.
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