Tuesday, December 31, 2019

NANCY PELOSI'S DEBACLE - JUDGE DISMISSES IMPEACHMENT


Nasty Nancy, Shifty Schiff, and Schumer subvert the Constitution to damage Trump



Nancy Pelosi, AKA Nasty Nancy, allowed Adam Schiff, AKA Shifty Schiff, to run the impeachment "inquiry" through Shifty's Intelligence Committee, where Shifty had total control.  He set the rules to allow only the witnesses he wanted.  He lied in his opening statement to commence the inquiry by making up President Trump's phone conversation with Ukraine's President Zelensky.  The resulting vote to impeach was a foregone conclusion regardless of the evidence, or lack thereof.
Pelosi has not sent Shifty's articles of impeachment to the Senate for a trial because she said she wants to first see the Senate trial procedures.
Pelosi knows that the Senate will acquit President Trump because Shifty's articles lack merit, or, to be blunt, because the articles are BS.
Article one charges abuse of power, which is a grab bag of Trump policies the Democrats don't like and a rehash of the Ukraine hoax.  The articles don't charge a constitutionally mandated reason, or even a crime, for impeachment.
Article two is even worse.  It charges obstruction of Congress on the theory that President Trump did not obey Shifty's subpoenas.  This is ridiculous because President Trump has a constitutional right, under the separation of powers, to assert executive privilege to object to congressional subpoenas.  If Pelosi and Shifty disagreed, they could have filed suit in federal court to enforce the subpoenas.  They knew they would lose, so they didn't file suit.
Senator Chuck Schumer joined in this subversion of the Constitution by trying to get Majority Leader McConnell to call witnesses selected by Schumer and Pelosi for the Senate trial.  The obvious question is, why didn't Shifty and Pelosi call and subpoena the witnesses during Shifty's inquiry if these witnesses were needed to make the Democrats' case?  The obvious answer is that Schumer and Pelosi know they don't have a case, regardless of any witnesses who didn't appear at Shifty's inquiry, or whomever they now want to call as witnesses.
The Democrats, led by Pelosi and Schumer, are seeking to influence public opinion against the eventual acquittal of President Trump.  They are laying the groundwork to argue that the Senate acquitted President Trump because Senator McConnell would not call the witnesses demanded by the Democrats, therefore the Senate didn't hear all the evidence.  They are preparing the DNC talking points to use against President Trump in the 2020 election campaign.
Pelosi is using the delay in sending the Shifty articles to the Senate, assuming she will send them, to discredit the Senate trial because she knows that the Senate will acquit after trial, if not dismiss the Shifty articles on a motion to dismiss.  She expects the media wing of the Democratic Party to join in attacking the Senate to portray the Senate trial as a sham because the Republicans have a majority in the Senate.
Pelosi is subverting the Constitution by playing politics in delaying sending the Shifty articles to the Senate to destroy the credibility of the constitutionally mandated Senate trial.  This is consistent with the Democratic Party playbook that refuses to accept that President Trump won the 2016 election.  It is consistent with the use of the Obama DOJ/FBI/CIA to spy on the Trump presidential campaign to help Hillary, and then to try to remove President Trump through the Russia Hoax investigation by Mueller.  The Ukraine Hoax is just a continuation of the campaign against President Trump.  The common thread is that the Democrats refuse to accept the results of the 2016 election.
Pelosi said she "prays" for President Trump.  This is preposterous and blasphemous.  She hates President Trump and is a leader in the Democratic Party putsch to remove President Trump.  She knows there is no legal and factual basis for impeachment.  As a Catholic, it is offensive to hear her say she "prays" for President Trump because of her Catholic upbringing when it is clear she uses her religion to give credibility to her political efforts to remove President Trump.
When Pelosi is not "praying" for President Trump, she leads the coup disguised as impeachment by lying about President Trump's record and trying to influence public opinion against President Trump's acquittal by questioning the credibility and legitimacy of the Senate trial.  She is attacking and disparaging the system established by the Constitution for a trial on impeachment.  Some Catholic upbringing.
The bottom line is that the real Nancy is Nasty Nancy, trying to discredit the deserved and timely acquittal of President Trump.


Judge Dismisses Impeachment Lawsuit After Democrats Pull Plug on Witness

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, listens as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit Monday that sought to determine whether a witness had to obey a subpoena from the impeachment inquiry after Democrats withdrew the subpoena and impeached Trump anyway.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon decided Monday that the suit filed by Charles Kupperman, a former aide to former National Security Advisor John Bolton, was moot because the subpoena had already been withdrawn. The House Intelligence Committee had sought to compel Kupperman’s testimony as part of its inquiry into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, alleging he withheld U.S. aid in return for investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden, who at the time was leading polls to win the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination.
Other witnesses in the inquiry indicated that Bolton had been skeptical of the efforts of U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, who testified that he believed there had been a “quid pro quo” (though he was told directly by Trump that there was not). Bolton was said to have criticized Sondland’s so-called “drug deal.”
The House Intelligence Committee sought to compel the testimony of senior administration officials, but the White House instructed them not to cooperate with what it described as an illegitimate inquiry that disobeyed the rules of previous impeachment investigations. Kupperman had approached the courts to ask whom he was required to obey.
In his 14-page opinion, Judge Leon recounted that he had arranged an “aggressive” schedule for the case after being assigned it in late October, because “the case was a matter of great consequence to the country.” But just days later, the Intelligence Committee “withdrew its subpoena to Kupperman, and the House noticed the case as moot and moved to vacate the expedited briefing schedule,” because it did not want to wait even for a rushed judicial process.
Kupperman had wanted the court to rule anyway, but Judge Leon said that there was no chance the House would re-issue the subpoena, based on Democrats’ written submissions to the court. That might seem to contradict their claims elsewhere that they would continue investigating Trump with a view to new articles of impeachment.
President Trump was impeached for “obstruction of Congress” because he would not comply with congressional subpoenas. Democrats chose to impeach him anyway, before the courts had weighed in on his authority to do so.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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