Sen. Dianne Feinstein indicated that she might vote to acquit Trump — and then recanted
On Tuesday, Trump's lawyers ended their arguments before the Senate against Trump's impeachment. In contrast to the Democrats' 24-hour marathon of imagination, mind-reading, invective, and hysteria, Trump's team presented tight constitutional and factual arguments of the type every lawyer loves best: using the opposition's own facts and arguments against them.
On Monday, Pam Bondi revealed what the impeachment is really about: the serious possibility that Joe Biden used his position as vice president to obtain unreasonably lucrative jobs for his alcoholic, coke-addled son, a man without skills or morals.
In a presentation that even arch-Progressive Talking Head Jeffrey Toobin conceded was damaging to Biden, Bondi introduced mainstream media footage showing that, despite a complete lack of qualifications, Hunter got an $83,000-a-month gig in Ukraine, one that required almost no work and that made no demands on his nonexistent skills. At the same time, said Bondi, the average American family earned less than $54,000 a year.
Bondi's argument underscored that the scandal isn't that Trump was trying to investigate corruption in the American government; the scandal is that the Democrats are running a sham impeachment so the object of that corruption investigation can become President of the United States.
Tuesday's arguments were equally compelling — in large part, Pat Cipollone relied on the excellent arguments against impeachment that Democrats made...in 1998, during Bill Clinton's impeachment:
No wonder, then, that Dianne Feinstein, after hearing the defense's closing arguments, suddenly sounded conciliatory:
"Nine months left to go, the people should judge. We are a republic, we are based on the will of the people — the people should judge," Feinstein said Tuesday, after the president's team finished a three-day presentation in his defense. "That was my view and it still is my view."
At the same time, Feinstein started waffling on about an imaginary constitution that requires Congress, rather than the citizens of the United States, to pass judgment on a president's character:
Still, she indicated that arguments in the trial about Trump's character and fitness for office had left her undecided. "What changed my opinion as this went on," she said, is a realization that "impeachment isn't about one offense. It's really about the character and ability and physical and mental fitness of the individual to serve the people, not themselves."
That's not at all what the Constitution demands of Congress in an impeachment. Impeachment has a single goal, which is to remove from office a president guilty of "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
The Founders wanted to have a mechanism to remove without waiting for an election a president who engaged in illegal acts that, were they not addressed immediately, could destroy the nation. As President Trump's defense team wisely pointed out, what's happening here is that the Democrats dislike Trump and disagree with the way in which he's exercising his constitutional authority over foreign policy. Liking or disliking policy initiatives, however, is the voters' purview, not Congress's.
Although Feinstein hid behind constitutional bafflegab, it's reasonable to believe that her real fear is that Biden will be shown to be corrupt. With Bernie rising in the polls, having Biden mired in a scandal is a nightmare. Worse, if Biden's corruption is revealed, Obama too will finally stand exposed as a man who countenanced corruption in his administration.
Feinstein may also have been sending up a trial balloon that got shot down. Immediately after stating quite clearly that she was seriously thinking (correctly) that it's the People's job to approve or disapprove of Trump's foreign policy, she walked her statement back:
After those remarks were published, Feinstein issued a statement saying she had been misunderstood."Before the trial I said I'd keep an open mind. Now that both sides made their cases, it's clear the president's actions were wrong. He withheld vital foreign assistance for personal political gain. That can't be allowed to stand."
More bafflegab. It's probable that Feinstein got an earful from her über-left California constituents or from her fellow Democrats.
The important takeaway is that Democrats, rather than feeling triumphant, are nervous. Right now, a lot of them are googling "What does it mean to be hoist with one's own petard?"
SEN.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS
IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
SHE
HAS AMASSE A STAGGERING FORTUNE AS SHE STALKED THE HALLS OF CONGRESS SNIFFING
OUT DEALS THAT SHE AND BARBARA “BRIBES” BOXER VOTED ON THAT DROPPED HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS INTO THE POCKETS OF FEINSTEIN’S PIMP-HUSBAND RICHARD BLUM
BLUM
HAS HANDED OUT CAMPAIGN “CONTRIBUTIONS” BRIBES TO VIRTUALLY ALL MAJOR DEM POLS
SO THEY KEEP THEIR MOUTHS CLOSED ABOUT FEINSTEIN’S STAGGERING CORRUPTION.
FEINSTEIN
HAS VOTED AGAINST ALL SENATE ATTEMPTS TO CURB SIPHONING OFF BRIBES TO FAMILY
MEMBERS IN THE FORM OF “CONSULTANT” FEES.
BARBARA
“BRIBES” BOXER MADE A VAST FORTUNE SHE SIPHONED OVER TO HER SON, OAKLAN LAWYER
DOUG BOXER.
PELOSI
HAS SIPHONED OFF BRIBES TO HER HUSBAND. AND THEN THERE ARE THE BACK ROOM DEALS
BLUM MADE TO PROFIT ON FEINSTEIN’S RED CHINA CONNECTIONS.
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SEN.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS
IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
SHE
HAS AMASSE A STAGGERING FORTUNE AS SHE STALKED THE HALLS OF CONGRESS SNIFFING
OUT DEALS THAT SHE AND BARBARA “BRIBES” BOXER VOTED ON THAT DROPPED HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS INTO THE POCKETS OF FEINSTEIN’S PIMP-HUSBAND RICHARD BLUM
BLUM
HAS HANDED OUT CAMPAIGN “CONTRIBUTIONS” BRIBES TO VIRTUALLY ALL MAJOR DEM POLS
SO THEY KEEP THEIR MOUTHS CLOSED ABOUT FEINSTEIN’S STAGGERING CORRUPTION.
FEINSTEIN
HAS VOTED AGAINST ALL SENATE ATTEMPTS TO CURB SIPHONING OFF BRIBES TO FAMILY
MEMBERS IN THE FORM OF “CONSULTANT” FEES.
BARBARA
“BRIBES” BOXER MADE A VAST FORTUNE SHE SIPHONED OVER TO HER SON, OAKLAN LAWYER
DOUG BOXER.
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HAS SIPHONED OFF BRIBES TO HER HUSBAND. AND THEN THERE ARE THE BACK ROOM DEALS
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IN THE November 2006
election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly
appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,
is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But
for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of
interest, say congressional ethics experts.
“All in all, it was an incredible victory
for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than other
any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
“Our entire
crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a
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